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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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Gambling and Lotteries
Gambling and Lotteries. Since the founding of Jamestown in 1607, gambling has been a source of both pleasure and moral disapproval...cockfights, while gentlemen bet on horse races. Gambling typically occurred among acquaintances, seldom involving... |
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gambling
gambling in Ireland has uncertain origins, though...lord lieutenant. An act of 1740, citing gambling as a distraction from labour, made horse...After partition both Irish states used gambling as a means of raising revenue. In Northern... |
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Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida
...states rushed to raise revenues by authorizing casino gambling. Perhaps nowhere was the impact of the gambling fever greater than on the lands of Native Americans. By 1995 casino gambling generated more than $4 billion a year in business... |
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Organized Crime
...twentieth century, certain types of gambling became increasingly coordinated in some...During and after the Civil War, policy gambling—a kind of illegal lottery—enjoyed...numerous relatively small bootlegging, gambling, and vice enterprises. Because he lived... |
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Las Vegas
...of the state. It is a world-famous gambling and entertainment centre. With more than...the railway in 1905. Nevada legalized gambling in 1931, and the city grew rapidly. Its first big gambling casino opened in 1946, and by the 1970s... |
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Circuses
...traveling amusement, circuses, became notorious as hotbeds of gambling and vice. Several states banned the Antebellum Era circus, which was...School” circus. Yet circuses remained venues for fights, gambling, and drunkenness.In 1900, nearly one hundred circuses roamed... |
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Commercial Speech
...Puerto Rico law banning the truthful advertising of legal casino gambling. The Court continued its deference to state legislative judgments...Co. v. Reilly (2001). The Greater New Orleans case on gambling and the Lorillard Tobacco decision on cigarette advertising... |
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Bella Union
...Francisco). Opening on Portsmouth Square as a combination gambling house, saloon, and variety theatre in October 1849, its first...could be had elsewhere only in duplicate of the original.” Gambling was abolished in 1856, and the house became known as a... |
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Horse Racing
...stricter supervision reduced the doping of horses and illegal gambling. Women were more often present at the track, behavior became more...the beauty of the running continued to captivate.See also Gambling and Lotteries; Sports.Bibliography William H.P. Robertson... |
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Malloy v. Hogan
...dissent. Malloy pleaded guilty to taking part in an unlawful gambling operation. Connecticut's Superior Court sentenced him to...probation he was called to testify in a state inquiry into gambling and other crimes. He refused to answer questions relating... |
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gambling, sociology of
gambling, sociology of Strictly speaking, to...is used more broadly. Diverse forms of gambling have been subject to a mixed history of...been difficult to distinguish between gambling, speculative enterprise, and insurance... |
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gambling
gambling. See BETTING AND GAMBLING. |
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betting and gambling
betting and gambling. A gamble is a contract whereby the loss or gain of something of value is wholly dependent on an uncertain event. The morality of gambling, considered as a species of recreation, is disputed. Some hold it... |
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gamble
...chance for money; bet: she was fond of gambling on cards and horses. ∎ [tr.] bet (a sum of money) in such a way: he was gambling every penny he had on the spin of a wheel...n. [usu. in sing.] an act of gambling; an enterprise undertaken or attempted... |
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bank
...bank) the store of money or tokens held by the banker in some gambling or board games. ∎ the person holding this store; the banker...storage for the following spring. PHRASES: break the bank (in gambling) win more money than is held by the bank. ∎ inf. cost... |
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Monte Carlo
...forming one of the four communes of the principality; it is famous as a gambling resort and as the terminus of the annual Monte Carlo rally.Monte...other methods. It is named after Monte Carlo with reference to its gambling casino. |
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Addams, Jane Laura
...institutions throughout the USA. As part of her commitment to social reform, Addams was a prohibitionist and fought against gambling and prostitution. She became a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement, and promoted the influence of women in... |
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ante, up the
...Ante here comes from the Latin word for ‘before’, and as an English term it was originally (in the early 19th century) a term in poker and similar gambling games, meaning ‘a stake put up by a player before drawing cards’. |
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check
...restaurant. ∎ (also baggage/luggage check) a token of identification for left luggage. ∎ a counter used as a stake in a gambling game. 5. short for check mark. 6. a crack or flaw in timber. • interj. 1. inf. expressing assent or agreement. 2... |
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decoy
...entice, allure’; but the sb. was no doubt prior, and perh. — Du. de kooi ‘the decoy’, with assim. to †decoy gambling card-game (XVI), of unkn. orig. Du. kooi, †koye is a parallel development to MDu. kouwe, MLG. kaue — L. cavea... |
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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 in the context of other recreation activity: a quantitative...
Gambling has become, over the past decade, an...was the only state that offered casino gambling, thirteen states had lotteries, and...the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling, 1976). By 1997, all but two states... |
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Gambling - Montana style.(includes related article on gambler Wild Bill...
Montana's current legal gambling environment has evolved from a long...1800s, card games and other sorts of gambling were a way to pass time for cowboys...for Wild Bill's story). Today, gambling is a little more civilized. People... |
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Gambling and Health Risk-Taking Behavior in a Military Sample
ABSTRACT This study examined the gambling of a cohort of U.S. Air Force recruits...and the relationship between their gambling and health-risk behaviors. Participants provided self-report data regarding gambling and health-related behaviors. Results... |
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Gambling on a simulated slot machine under conditions of repeated play.(Report)
...in proportion to total amount bet) on gambling on a slot-machine simulation in 8 adult...to percentage-payback conditions. Gambling did not vary systematically across levels...than in other conditions; however, gambling by the remaining 2 participants was similar... |
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Gambling in Manitoba: financing the neoconservative agenda on the backs of...
Gambling is one of the fastest-growing components...massive expansion in government-run gambling, most of it since the early 1990s, is...other important programs. Critics of gambling reject the rationale used to justify the... |
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Gambling: where the money goes.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
...has become an expert on the economics of gambling, writing scholarly studies at the Brookings...subject. In the past three decades, gambling has exploded in the United States. "Legalized gambling has grown from a limited activity to one... |
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Gambling issue isn't rattling pews // Local church leaders say war, not...
...try to slip an expansion of legalized gambling through the legislature when no one is...church member active in a statewide anti-gambling movement said recently to the Rev. Rusty...Philadelphia, a potential riverboat gambling site. Williams said New Life puts its... |
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Gambling Habits of Americans Aged Fifty and Over Presents Data On How...
...19 April 2010-Research and Markets: Gambling Habits of Americans Aged Fifty and Over...Americans View The Moral Appropriateness Of Gambling(C)1994-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE...researchandmarkets.com/research/231682/gambling_habits_of) has announced the addition... |
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Gambling activities undertaken by listing applicants and/or listed issuers.
...M2 PRESSWIRE-11 March 2003-HKEx: Gambling activities undertaken by listing applicants...applicant involved in the operation of gambling activities is suitable for listing and...company involved in the operation of gambling activities. As an internal guideline... |
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Gambling, psychology, and state politics
LEGAL GAMBLING has been increasing significantly in recent years, as have the apposed expenditures for pathological or compulsive gambling. Congress created the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC) in 1999 "to conduct... |
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