Sentences with phrase «by gambling interests»

Coming in second was a coalition backed by gambling interests that opposes casino expansion, which spent $ 1.47 million.

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The banks are trying to win back their losses by arbitrage operations, borrowing from the Fed at a low interest rate and lending at a higher one, and gambling on options and derivatives.
If school concerns, for example, were addressed by churches, perhaps these concerns would not be the stalking horses for gambling interests.
With the state capital besieged by criminal investigations, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos has warned his members about taking campaign donations from gambling interests.
In asking the gambling commission to reopen the bidding for a fourth license, Mr. Cuomo said that doing so «may excite national competition by interested parties that submit even better applications in the first round.»
A portion of the revenue generated by casino gaming is required by law to be directed to problem gambling, but Shafer believes both the state and casino companies have little interest in helping those with additions.
The list of top donors to housekeeping accounts is dominated by special interests that are highly regulated and / or subsidized by state government: real estate firms, health - care and pharmaceutical interests, labor unions, telecom companies, the beverage industry, big tobacco and gambling interests.
Anyone interested in Connecticut's future should be deeply concerned about the way Democratic legislative leaders handled the General Electric Co. fiasco as opposed to their all - out effort to preserve Connecticut's casino industry by expanding casino gambling in the state.
By investing in Premium Bonds, people are, in effect, gambling the interest they would have otherwise earned.
Paul Feig's film has gambled on women, assuming that female moviegoers are sick of being reduced to man - starved, materialistic shopaholics by Hollywood, and want to see a mainstream comedy which gives them a chance to live and breathe as honest to god, funny, interesting people with their own point of view.
It's also a part that Godin took a calculated gamble on by limiting himself to Amazon and the Kindle platform, and it will be very interesting to see where he goes for his next book after so boldly proclaiming he was done with traditional publishing last summer.
Itemized deductions also include mortgage interest paid on a home loan, personal losses due to theft or accident, state and local income or sales taxes, property taxes (on real estate as well as personal property), charitable contributions to churches and other qualified nonprofit organizations, gambling losses (provided they are offset by gambling winnings), and home office expenses.
• Balance Transfers, Cash Advances, Cash Equivalent Transactions (transactions in highly liquid assets, e.g. assets that are directly convertible to cash such as, but not limited to, money orders, travelers checks, foreign currency, gambling chips and lottery tickets), Purchases made by or for a business or for a business purpose, fees, interest charges, and unauthorized / fraudulent transactions do not earn AAdvantage ® miles.
One book by a local author, «The Suicide Club» (huge gambling in Matara), Herman Gunaratne, owner of an Ahangama tea plantation with great tours very close by, takes readers on a journey through the British plantation Raj during its heyday and what has become of it all in these post-colonial times... interesting read...!
Oh, also: the ESRB made it clear that it has no interest in dealing with the loot box gambling issue, and President Game Show Host thinks mass shootings are caused by unregulated access to videogames.
The interesting, central finding of the theory paper is that when a «fortune» (available resources) fall below a certain critical level (determined by the cost per unit time of surviving, and the stochastic return investments available to the investor), the optimal policy becomes what economists call a «risk - seeking» one, where the investor should place relatively large bets on relatively high payoff, low probability of payoff gambles.
And the entity charged with protecting ratepayer interests — Michigan's Public Service Commission (MPSC)-- has the proof it needs to stand up for ratepayers and the environment by rejecting DTE's proposed $ 1 billion natural gas gamble.
Writing for a unanimous court, Judge Dolores Sloviter wrote: «gambling, even in the home, simply does not involve any individual interests of the same constitutional magnitude» as sexual privacy laws, and therefore «is not protected by any right to privacy under the Constitution.»
By requiring insureds to have an insurable interest in covered property, insurance companies make sure that property policies can not be used for gambling.
Casino Markers In the world of gambling, as a motivation for gamblers to continue playing, zero interest loans are offered by the casinos in the form of casino markers.
I have special interest in working with clients in regards to issues of addictions (particularly substance use, gambling, and compulsive eating), grief, trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, and behavioral health issues that are informed by societal oppression.
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