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天行健，君子以自强不息。地势坤，君子以厚德载物。——《易经》
2023 年考研英语排序题原文出处 答案一目了然
Electronic Morphine Gambling has been a common feature
of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly
considered a sin. Now it is a social policy. NEWSWEEK Nov. 25
issue
On the north bank of the Ohio River sits Evansville, Ind.,
home of David Williams, 52, and of a riverboat casino. During
several years of gambling in that casino, Williams, a state
auditor earning $35,000 a year, lost approximately $175,000.
He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for
$20 worth of gambling. (PHOTO of George F. Will)
He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left. On his
second visit he lost $800. The casino issued to him, as a good
customer, a Fun Card, which when used in the casino earns points
for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the users
gambling activities. For Williams, those activities became
what he calls electronic morphine. By the time he had lost
$5,000 he said to himself that if he could get back to even,
he would quit. One night he won $5,500, but he did not quit.
In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days.
In March 1997 he lost $72,186. He sometimes played two slot
machines at a time, all night, until the boat docked at 5 a.m.,
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我尽一杯，与君发三愿：一愿世清平，二愿身强健，三愿临老头，数与君相见。——《白居易》
以家为家，以乡为乡，以国为国，以天下为天下。——《管子·牧民》
then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a.m. Now he
is suing the casino, charging that it should have refused his
patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had
a problem.
In March 1998 a friend of Williamss got him
involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions,
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