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- <text id=91TT2225>
- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: Business Notes:Gambling
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Busisness Notes
- GAMBLING
- Talk About a Joystick...
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Lotteries are already a "painless" way for states to raise
- revenue, but Minnesota may have found the easiest method yet.
- Next year the state's lottery, with the help of Control Data
- Corp., will test-market a system linking as many as 10,000
- Nintendo video-game sets to the lottery's computers via phone
- lines. For a $200 advance deposit, money-mad Minnesotans will
- be given the necessary equipment to play all the state's
- gambling games at home. Despite barriers to prevent betting by
- minors, critics question the ethics of turning a children's toy
- into a one-armed bandit.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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