The agreement to expand gambling drew strong condemnations from the Catholic Conference and the New York State Conservative Party, which argued that it amounted to a tax on compulsive gamblers, many of them poor.
Taking a gamble on strong public approval polls in the spring, she called a snap election that she hoped would allow her to solidify her party's mandate as the country prepares for Brexit negotiations.
From Mulberry Street in Little Italy to Springfield, Massachusetts to southern Florida to Pennsylvania, the multi-family operation allegedly worked together by reverting to time-honored mob practices like running illegal gambling ventures, strong-arming businesses and (at least talking about) busting kneecaps.
Nebraskans also firmly refused to sanction gambling, despite a strong push by proponents who were backed by Nevada gambling companies.
Today, as the demonstration blocked a mile-long section of the center of the capital, Mr. Kuchma flew 200 miles southeast to Dnipropetrovsk to meet with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, who was said by aides in Moscow to be gambling that a strong show of support for the embattled Mr. Kuchma will solidify economic and political ties.
Still, Americans' appetite for gambling is so strong that they will find a way around the restrictions.
As one of the House's strongest gambling proponents, Mr. Lang has received hundreds of campaign contributions from the industry.
He gambled on a strong side and he won, inflicting only the second defeat of the season on Guus Hiddink.
Adam Gopnik describes Mark Twain's ruinous investment in a typesetting machine, the Paige Compositor, but Twain went into his typesetting gamble with a strong background in the trade (A Critic at Large, November 29th).
While the Sierra Club strongly opposed the polluter-friendly investment rules included in the deal, we took a gamble that a strong, binding environment chapter might counter the weight of the flawed investment chapter.
