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Topping the complaint list were cell-phone companies, with 38,420 complaints, up 41% over 2010. After that, the list includes (in order of number of gripes): new-car dealers
Jackpocket (a portmanteau of 'jackpot' and 'pocket') was founded in 2013 by Peter Sullivan to create an app for ordering lottery tickets. [3]The company operates as a lottery courier service; users can order lottery tickets through the Jackpocket app, but the tickets are purchased by the company on the user's behalf; it earns its revenue from service fees when a user funds their account.
The first modern government-run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934. [8] This was followed, decades later, by the New Hampshire Lottery in 1964. Instant lottery tickets, also known as scratch cards, were introduced in the 1970s and have become a major source of lottery revenue.
21 Feb 2022 – Draft:Jackpocket submitted for AfC by StrangeChemistry489 was declined by Numberguy6 on 02 Apr 2022; 17 Mar 2022 – Draft:Deplike submitted for AfC by GuitarEffect was declined by DoubleGrazing on 03 Apr 2022; 21 Mar 2022 – Draft:You Build It You Run It submitted for AfC by RowanBarnes was declined by Mako001 on 03 Apr 2022
Structurally, Portnoy's Complaint is a continuous monologue by narrator Alexander Portnoy to Dr. Spielvogel, his psychoanalyst; Roth later explained that the artistic choice to frame the story as a psychoanalytic session was motivated by "the permissive conventions of the patient-analyst situation," which would "permit me to bring into my fiction the sort of intimate, shameful detail, and ...
The form of Cockney slang is made clear with the following example. The rhyming phrase "apples and pears" is used to mean "stairs". Following the pattern of omission, "and pears" is dropped, thus the spoken phrase "I'm going up the apples" means "I'm going up the stairs".
Portnoy's Complaint is a 1972 American comedy film written and directed by Ernest Lehman. His screenplay is based on the bestselling 1969 novel of the same name by Philip Roth . It was Lehman's first and only directorial effort.
DraftKings Inc. is an American gambling company based in Boston, Massachusetts.It offers sportsbook and daily fantasy sports (DFS) services.. The company was originally launched in 2012 as a DFS provider, competing principally with the New York–based FanDuel.