Word: stanek
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Powerball, the brainchild of physicist Ed Stanek, began in 1992 as a way for relatively less populous states to gain access to large money-generating player bases. The game works this way: to win the jackpot, players must match five numbers, chosen from 1 to 49, and hit the Powerball, chosen from numbers 1 to 42. Matching all but the Powerball yields a $100,000 prize. Matching the Powerball number itself, but no other numbers, wins $3. Players can opt to chose their own numbers or purchase "quick pick" tickets with computer-generated selections. The Lucky 13 always went...
...year after. A new four-year study of employee attitudes spells out the damage that has been done to the work ethic and the traditional American optimism about building a better future by ten years of downsizing. "People are living their lives in chapters now," said John R. Stanek, chief executive officer of Chicago-based International Survey Research Corp., which surveyed workers at 1,000 corporations employing more than 25,000 people. "Anyone who thinks he's got a job for life has been in a lead mine for the past ten years, or is a Supreme Court Justice." Perhaps...
...enforcement authorities report that not one shred of reliable evidence has turned up to support these claims -- no documented marks of torture, no bones of sacrificed adults, infants or fetuses and no reputable eyewitnesses. Lorraine Stanek, a Connecticut rehabilitation counselor for trauma survivors, also stresses the lack of evidence. "If you look at the alleged number of deaths that would be accounted for," she says, "there should be bodies in all our backyards." Still, incest-survivor groups are inundated with these claims. Monarch Resources, a California referral service for survivors, is said to receive more than 5,000 calls annually...