Another related issue is that the casinos were fostering a debt problem by loaning far more than people could pay back. A supermarket clerk making $18,000 annually and no other significant assets was granted a loan of $300,000 from a casino.
The game of chicken, also known as the hawk-dove game or snowdrift game, is a model of conflict for two players in game theory.
1 Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers. 2  The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis. ( slang, usually sarcastic) A person who is unique and special (referring to the idea that no two snowflakes are identical in structure).