Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this can be called a tax still escapes me, however. Nobody is compelling the Boston Welfare Mommy to plunk her hard-earned quarters into slot machines. If the Massachusetts poor are silly enough not to realize that gambling is generally a losing proposition, we have no duty to save them from themselves, at least not in this particular case...
...bargain surprised and upset many players in the 69-day soap opera. The U.S. Figure Skating Association, which had counted on Harding to head its squad in Japan now that Kerrigan seems to be retiring from amateur sport, hastily tapped national bronze medalist Nicole Bobek to fill the empty slot. That leaves two young skaters with little experience in international competition -- Bobek, 16, and Olympic alternate Michelle Kwan, 13 -- to represent...
...that, should someone drop out of a rooming group, it is easier to just put another man with three men or a woman with three women. According to Catherine M. Millett of the Undergraduate Housing Office, "If a student for some reason cancels, we have to fill the slot." The administration thus frames its opposition in economic terms...
...Shift (Hyperion; $24.95), his richly reported book on the network battle over Letterman, NBC's blunder was, if not excusable, at least understandable. When the network negotiated a new contract with Leno in 1991, in part to keep him from jumping (ironically) to CBS, it guaranteed him the Tonight slot after Carson left -- not an unreasonable promise to the man who had been capably filling in for Carson for four years. Letterman, who preferred private sulking to office politics, never let top NBC executives know how crucial the Tonight Show was to his own conception of career growth...
Epps' office hours are 2 to 4 p.m..Rudenstine's are once a month at varying times;students must sign up for a slot one hour ahead oftime. Wilson's are held at 4:15 p.m. on oneWednesday each month...