Word: slots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inspire a lot of verbalizing. Murphy Brown is more trendily topical; Roseanne has more behind-the-scenes intrigue; Seinfeld appeals more to the thirtysomething opinion makers. All Home Improvement does is draw the biggest crowds. The ABC sitcom debuted last season to solid ratings (helped by a surefire time slot, between Full House and Roseanne). But this season, moved to Wednesday nights, it has powered its way to a new level. For five of the past six weeks, Home Improvement has been TV's highest-rated weekly series. ABC is so enamored of its new smash that in December...
...Chicago, in pastoral New Hampshire and Maine, in the desert elegance of California's Palm Springs, at historic Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, and on the lakefront sites of abandoned steel mills in Gary, Indiana. Some entrepreneurs are even talking of the day when Americans will find video slot machines at every local bar or bet from their living rooms through interactive television...
...gambler. "This place is filled with people like me and you -- none of whom think of themselves as gamblers," he says from his casino office. "They think of themselves as folks who are on vacation, and while they're here -- hey, let's put some money in the slot machine...
...scored one success after another, even if his first Las Vegas venture was a flop. At 25, he took money he had made in his family's bingo business in Maryland and invested $45,000 to purchase a 3% interest in the Frontier Hotel, where he became the slot manager. But several stockholders of the hotel turned out to be stand-ins for Detroit mobsters, and Wynn was forced to sell early. He was never accused of being anything but an innocent in the affair, and he did get something invaluable out of it: a friendship with the most powerful...
Dartmouth's Alex Kaplan crushed Wallooppillai in the third slot 6-3, 6-1. The Green's Jim Rich edged freshman Danny Chung 6-4, 7-6 in the fifth position, while Randy White nipped freshman Howard...