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«[At the time the bidding was stopped, Automated Wagering International, the GTECH competitor for whom Larry Littman had worked before becoming the Texas Lottery's executive director, had on the table a competitive bid that reportedly would have saved Texas $92 million over five years plus provide a new computer system at no cost to the state. Charles Brooke, senior vice president for Automated Wagering International was shocked.] We were totally dismayed, ... They owe us a hell of a lot better explanation. They didn't even try to negotiate with us.»

«The war is over, the war is over!»

«It's something that we want to do for New Orleans, ... A lot of people look at us as not only reps of Tulane, but of New Orleans. People can look at us and say, wow, look at that team they're going on the road, going through all that adversity, and still getting the job done.»

«We've sent some buses to the Superdome, ... They've been steadily going out all day.»

«Block watches tend to form around one issue, especially immediate issues, ... A lot of the interest dies down after problems go away.»

«This is a block watch formed for the right reasons. They want to include everybody in solving the problem.»

«If there's not an allotment [in the plan] to make sure the rivers flow, we're not going to have rivers, or they'll be disgusting and you won't want to get in them,»

«we worked until we couldn't, 16 hours on duty, four hours to sleep.»

«Little did I know when I shook my mop out of the second-story window of a Greenwich Village brownstone in New York City (in 1957) that five years later I would be crossing the Red River at Shreveport»

«We are trying desperately to get it going,»