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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...
...answer to these objections is that the slot machines will be placed only in locations where gambling of one sort or another already exists: the tracks, and the casino boats, which will be placed only in communities that approve them...
...central argument for approval of the proposal is that it will bring significant revenue into state coffers. Estimates suggest that the slot machines alone will generate $5 billion in revenue, of which the state would take $82.1 million, a 1.5 percent cut. Even if the estimates are somewhat off the mark, as some state legislators have suggested legalized gambling will still bring in large amounts of money...
...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...