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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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The Procter Gamble Company
The Procter & Gamble Company One Procter & Gamble Plaza Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-3315 U.S.A. Telephone: (513) 983-1100 Fax: (513) 983-9369 Web site: http://www.pg.com Public Company Incorporated: 1890 Employees: 110,000 Sales: $51.41 billion (2004) Stock Exchanges: New... Read more |
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James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers 1867-1947, American architect, b. Kentucky. He designed many buildings for Yale, his alma mater. Among them are the Sterling Memorial Library, the Sterling School of Graduate Studies, Pierson College, and the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle. For 10 years he was architectural... 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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Product safety
TOXIC SHOCK AND PRODUCT SAFETY A Rare Illness on the Increase "It even absorbs the worry," proclaimed Procter & Gamble when it first distributed its tampon products. But decades later in 1980, Procter & Gamble had plenty of worries. After 344 cases of a rare and baffling... Read more |
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Beau Nash
Beau Nash (Richard Nash), 1674-1761, Englishman of fashion. As master of ceremonies at Bath he was the recognized leader of society. He maintained his luxurious mode of living by gambling until gaming was forbidden in 1745. He died a poor pensioner.... Read more |
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Impulse control disorders
Impulse control disorders Definition Impulse control disorders are a relatively new class of personality disorderscharacterized by an ongoing inability to resist impulses to perform actions that are harmful to oneself or others. The most common of these are ... 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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William Cooper Procter
William Cooper Procter William Cooper Procter (1862-1934) rose to the chairmanship of the Procter & Gamble Corporation and never sacrificed his ideals of humane business management. He devoted a great deal of attention to devising systems that would reward employees for both loyalty and... Read more |
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Biloxi
Biloxi: Economy Major Industries and Commercial Activity Gaming and tourism is Biloxi's most important industry. By the end of the twentieth century, there were 12 Las Vegas-style casinos in the region, nine of which were in the city of Biloxi. The casinos feature ... Read more |
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casino
casino • noun synonyms: gambling club, gaming club, gambling house, gambling den. |
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adventure
adventure • noun 1. a spirit of adventure | a life full of adventuresynonyms: risk, hazard, danger, peril, gamble, gambling, uncertainty, precariousness. 2. tales of the sailor's adventuressynonyms: exploit, deed, feat, experience, incident. |
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junket
junket • noun informal the company sponsored a New Year's Eve gambling junketsynonyms: excursion, outing, spree, trip, jaunt; celebration, party, jamboree, feast, festivity; informal bash, shindig. |
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sacrilege
sacrilege • noun any form of gambling on the church grounds, including bingo and raffles, would be sacrilegesynonyms: desecration, profanity, blasphemy, impiety, irreligion, unholiness, irreverence, disrespect, profanation.antonym: piety. |
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chip
chip • noun 1. chips on the sawmill's floorsynonyms: shaving, paring, shard, flake, shred, sliver, splinter, fragment, snippet, scrap. 2. the cup with a chip in itsynonyms: nick, crack, notch, flaw. 3. gambling chipssynonyms: counter, token, disk. |
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speculative
...speculativesynonyms: conjectural, theoretical, hypothetical, suppositional, notional, academic, tentative, unproven, vague, indefinite. 2. speculative dealings on the stock marketsynonyms: gambling, risky, hazardous; inf. chancy, dicey. |
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blow
...rear tire had blown synonyms: burst, explode, blow out, split, rupture, puncture. 7. informal he blew his money on gambling synonyms: squander, waste, misspend, throw away, fritter away, go through, lose, lavish, dissipate, use up; spend... |
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legitimate
legitimate • adjective 1. the only form of legitimate gambling synonyms: legal, lawful, licit, legalized, authorized, permitted, permissible, allowable, allowed, admissible, sanctioned... |
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prohibit
prohibit • verb 1. state law prohibits gambling synonyms: forbid, ban, bar, interdict, proscribe, make illegal, embargo, outlaw, disallow, veto; Law enjoin.antonyms: permit... |
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proscribe
proscribe • verb 1. gambling was proscribed synonyms: forbid, prohibit, ban, bar, interdict, make illegal, embargo, outlaw, disallow, veto; Law enjoin.antonyms... |
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Gambling by Greek-Affiliated College Students: An Association Between...
...prevalence rates of pathological and problem gambling between Greek-affiliated and non...participants volunteered to take the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS; Lesieur & Blume, 1987), which measures gambling disorders. A statistically significant... |
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Gambling Foes Are on Dicey Ground
...frequently by the rhetoric of anti-gambling moralists. But rarely has there been...federal commission that will study the gambling industry. The New York Times's William Safire wants the National Gambling Impact Study Commission to reveal... |
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Gambling industry has its eye on Southwest.(Southwest: Trends in the Region)
When it comes to legalizing casino gambling, Southwestern states are going to...Entertainment Inc., which runs racetracks and gambling facilities in several states, predicts...pressures will force more states to legalize gambling. An Oklahoma group led by DeBartolo... |
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Gambling Expansion Debate Far from Over in Florida.
...racetracks may have failed in the Legislature last week, but Florida's gambling interests aren't ready to give up on expanding gambling here. In state after state, gambling proponents have seized on lean economic times to bring in video gaming... |
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Gambling on the Internet: the states risk playing economic roulette as the...
...environment. Currently, the Internet gambling industry (1) is confronting this vexing...2) that have legalized some form of gambling are facing a difficult economic question...whether to implement legalized Internet gambling within their state borders. (3) Presently... |
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Gambling becoming 'silent addiction' for seniors in United States.(Neighbor)
...and I are worried about an elderly aunt. Her gambling seems to be escalating more each month, and...your aunt, as you imply, is only living for gambling, then it is very sad. Gambling for most people is an enjoyable recreation... |
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Gambling: In the Mainstream
...newspaper relies on the "facts" about the gambling industry according to anti-gambling Rep. Frank Wolf and fails to check them for...Washington Post {"Hooking the U.S. on Gambling," editorial, June 23}, you would be correct... |
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Gambling in Australian Indigenous communities: the state of play.(Report)
Indigenous peoples' participation in gambling While several recent studies have documented widespread gambling amongst Indigenous people, the historical record of gambling activity prior to colonisation is less certain. Consequently some analysts... |
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Gambling: the hidden addiction: cases of this psychiatric disorder are on the...
...conveniently on a variety of games and events. Gambling is a growing and popular form of recreation...problem. Unfortunately, for some people gambling becomes more than harmless entertainment. They spend more time thinking about gambling, they gamble much more often, and they... |
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Gambling addiction rife among Indians.
Gambling addiction has reached epidemic proportions...Chairman of the National Council for Problem Gambling, Raj Govender, called for urgent intervention...always telling us that without Indians the gambling industry would close. That is not far... |
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