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Penn National Gaming Inc
Penn National Gaming, Inc. Wyomissing Professional Center825 Berkshire Boulevard, Suite 200Wyomissing, Pennsylvania 19610U.S.A.Telephone: (610) 373-2400Fax: (610) 376-2842Web site: http://www.pennnational.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1972Employees: 1,870Sales: $171.5 million (1999)Stock... Read more |
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gambling
gambling or gaming, betting of money or valuables on, and often participation in, games of chance (some involving degrees of skill). In England and in the United States, gambling was not a common-law crime if conducted privately. Even in colonial America, however, gambling was liable to rankle... Read more |
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Multimedia Games Inc
Multimedia Games, Inc. 8900 Shoal Creek BoulevardBuilding 3, Suite 300Austin, Texas 78757U.S.A.Telephone: (512)371-7100Fax: (512)371-7114Web site: http://www.multimediagames.com Public Company Incorporated: 1991Employees: 152Sales: $96.8 million (2000)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbol:... Read more |
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Gaming
Gaming Recent years have indicated a change in the locality of legalized casino gambling across the United States. Until 1978 gaming, as it is commonly called, was available only in Nevada. Today, however, the casino business has expanded to other states. One reason for... Read more |
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Joliet
Joliet , city (1990 pop. 76,836), seat of Will co., NE Ill., on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1857. It is a river port and an industrial shipping center, with limestone quarries and coal mines in the area, but riverboat casino gambling is now the city's primary industry. Machinery, electronic and... Read more |
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Saratoga Springs
Saratoga Springs resort and residential city (1990 pop. 25,001), Saratoga co., E N.Y.; inc. as a village 1826, as a city 1915. Skidmore College is the largest source of employment, but the city also has light manufacturing. The last battle of the Saratoga campaign was fought near the city in... Read more |
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Mobile gaming
GamblingThe psychology of gamblingThe sociology of gamblingThe legalization issueBIBLIOGRAPHYGambling may be defined as a form of activity in which the parties involved, who are known as bettors or players, voluntarily engage to make the transfer of money or something else of value among themselves... Read more |
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Casino Theatre
Casino Theatre (New York). The first theatre built in America specifically for the presentation of popular musicals, it opened in 1882 with a performance of Strauss's The Queen's Lace Handkerchief. It was the brainchild of Rudolph Aronson, who originally conceived it as a theatre with restaurants,... Read more |
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parimutuel betting
parimutuel betting , system of cooperative wagering invented (c.1870) in France by Pierre Oller. According to the system, the holders of winning tickets divide the total amount of money bet on a race (the pool), after deductions for tax and racetrack expenses. The uniqueness of parimutuel betting... Read more |
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Steve Case
Steve Case 1958– Director, Time Warner Nationality: American. Born: August 21, 1958, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Education: Williams College, BA, 1980. Family: Son of Dan (attorney) and Carol (teacher; maiden name unknown) Case; married Joanne Baker (divorced); children: three; ... Read more |
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