Word: walleted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey: As if it weren't bad enough to come home from the casino with an empty wallet, just think how you'd feel a month later if you got a credit card bill charging you 18 percent interest on your losses. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission voted 3-1 on Wednesday to let players buy chips or tokens using credit cards or debit cards in lieu of cash. Not surprisingly, experts on compulsive gambling have criticized the move. "In the act of walking away from a machine and walking outside or into the lobby...
...massive, carnival-like musical tours that feature at least half a dozen acts as well as food booths, souvenir stands and more. This summer several festivals are touring the land, each with a distinct character, each vying for a hold on the pop-culture imagination and wallet...
After a decade of marital cold war and four years of separation, have the Waleses reached the settlement to end it all? According to royal insiders, DIANA has decided to bury the hatchet with Charles, right in his wallet. In exchange for a divorce, Diana, who turned 35 last week, will get just about everything she wants: joint custody of Princes William and Harry, about $30 million in cash, and a lease on her posh digs at Kensington Palace. Still on the table: hanging on to the title Her Royal Highness. And for Charles? The Prince keeps his right...
NETSCAPE ESCALATED ITS BATTLE WITH Microsoft for the soul (and wallet) of the Internet last week by quietly offering Web surfers a preview of a superbrowser, code-named Atlas. The program is designed to compete with Microsoft's Explorer, which Net users have labeled slow and short on appealing features. Though downloading Atlas was rough going (more than an hour on a 14.4 modem), patient users were treated to a program stuffed with new applications, part of Netscape's plan to outdazzle and outperform Microsoft. Below, a look inside Atlas, available at www.netscape.com...
...eventually tracks down Ray (Jones), who meets him with barely concealed hostility, and the two part with an apparently mutual desire never to see each other again. However, by a quirk of fate, Earl runs into four black youths who rough him up and make off with his wallet and his truck. Against his will, Ray is forced to take Earl temporarily into his own house...