Sentences with phrase «costs of gambling»

Why Casinos Matter, a new report from the Institute for American Values, details the human and social costs of gambling.

They refused to let anyone from outside the community speak, and when one village trustee questioned whether the economic claims of gambling included the costs of gambling, she was quickly silenced by the mayor.

Not exact matches

(Policies with shorter durations of coverage cost less; the gamble may make sense, since about 75 % of nursing home stays last for three years or less.)

It may cost tens of thousands simply to create your prototype, so if you have - let's say $ 100,000 - to invest in your idea, make sure it's disposable income that you're gambling with.

The gamble for a CEO is a risk that must be taken when aspiring to move the business forward, and you must accept the uncertain future of your bet in that it could also result in costing your job.

The rates that have responded most significantly to lower borrowing costs are short - term loans for financial speculation, above all for derivatives and related buying or selling of stocks and bonds on margin — enormous gambles on which way the dollar, the stock market and interest rates may go.

Toronto - listed The Stars Group has spent more than $ 550 million in about a week on Australian gambling assets, shaking up the rapidly consolidating bookmaking sector in a series of deals that could eventually cost it up to $ 785 million.

Gambling terms account for 77 % of the UK's top 100 terms, with the most expensive cost per click coming in at around $ 220.

He knows that large numbers of people are against gambling and will come out to vote, and that referenda campaigns cost the industry effort and financial resources.

Top managers in modern football don't gamble and rely on other teams mistakes, they make sure they have every chance of reaching their goal by building an unstoppable squad even if it costs an extra 60m.

He wanted to come to us, cost less than Xhaka — idiotic gamble on Xhaka (who is a good player btw) instead of buying Premiership experienced, marathon man Kante, for less!!!! Total and utter idiocy.

Wenger knows his sh*t, we just need a board who are Arsenal fans and not sports businessmen, business is profits... profit or profit... a football fan would want to «gamble» a bit by investing in the squad to make the winnings and publicity and not take the safe route of selling players to cover the cost of buying players and banking the profit.

Brendan Rodgers likes taking gambles on lesser known players, but this one will cost them far less and comes with an already strong understanding of the English top flight.

They've also cobbled together a surprisingly hefty lineup with the help of prospects who blossomed (Domingo Santana), trades that panned out (Travis Shaw), and a low - cost gamble that will keep paying off (Eric Thames).

I am sure Wengers plan is to develop MOST from within but he knows that the team will need to buy occasionally and he wants us to be able to get the best for Arsenal when we do have to buy, not get a player who is a bit of a gamble but didn't cost as much as 1st choice target.

The Boss took a gamble last season and bought 5 players that cost the club huge sum of money.

I really don't know what DM we could buy, Kondogbia said he won't leave in January, Carvalho would be a gamble, Schneirderlin will cost more than he's worth and then I'm running out of options.

Joining Football Betting is not a gamble, at zero cost it will be one of the best investments you ever make, the only gamble is whether you choose this or another service that promises, yet fails to deliver.

Gambling companies have argued for years that New York loses billions of dollars a year to casinos in Connecticut and New Jersey, costing the state jobs and tax revenue.

Video lottery facilities like Vernon Downs pay 10 percent of their pre-tax gambling revenue to the state Gaming Commission to cover administrative costs.

Theresa May's gamble on a snap election has failed spectacularly costing her control of the Commons in an extraordinary election night.

Rank and file legislators fear a repeat of the 2010 bid rigging scandal over gambling at the Aqueduct that cost the State Senate's Democrats their majority, but don't want to be shutout of the dealing on the lucrative casino licenses.

I support the proposed November election referendum that would authorize the gambling, but Westchester and Rockland residents will bear many of the costs of any -LSB-...]

Opponents of gambling note that casinos can actually make a local economy worse, with issues ranging from increased costs to law enforcement to the impact a gambling addiction has on families.

Duffy cited the 2 percent property tax cap from 2011 as well as the proposed amendment to expand casino gambling in New York as factors that could drive down the cost of property taxes.

«It actually leads to less money, not more, because of the costs of problem gambling.»

None of this takes into account the hidden costs often associated with legalized gambling, including increases in personal bankruptcy and addiction, which according to McGowan, tends to afflict both the elderly and those between 18 and 25 years old.

«Gamblers Anonymous is one of the most cost - effective and easily accessible resources for individuals living with problem gambling issues,» said Dr. Flora Matheson, lead scientist of the study and medical sociologist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.

Oz was one of the few bright lights in a season full of underperformance and while its risky gambles mostly paid off, I wish Disney would reconsider its strategy of a film slate small in number and great in cost.

Their decision cost them a sense of accomplishment, but they refused to gamble with their children's education.

While I am a gambling woman, and I would bet my savings on the historically - rooted predictions above, should anybody want to take that bet, I would walk away from this one altogether in that in the state of Arizona, alone, this «initiative» is set to cost taxpayers more than $ 22.5 million a year, $ 9 million more than the state is currently paying for its NCLB testing program (i.e., the Arizona Instrument to Measure Statndards [AIMS]-RRB-.

With income from self publishing being a gamble, using as many of these budget - saving tools as are available can help keep costs from spiraling out of control and can quicken your return on investment (ROI) from your book.

Instead of moving up to the higher performance (and cost) Low Temperature Poly Silicon LCDs, Apple chose to continue gambling on IGZO, which has resulted in both production shortages and inferior products.

They could have tried to strip away the excess weight of unsustainable corporate costs and their reckless addiction to gamble huge advances for bestsellers, to rework their economics at new, competitive price points.

Giveaway: hardcover of High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction by Sam Skolnick

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, and says, «Drew reflects on why we often ignore the reality of what gambling actually is at our long - term financial cost.»

As CC and Rob point out, the cost of being wrong on a fixed rate gamble is very low today.

The cost of being wrong on a variable rate gamble could be higher.

That's a big gamble when the IIAB says the average cost of renter's insurance per month is only $ 12.

«Meanwhile, in order to try to offset the cost of buying back its shares, Dell Computer decided to gamble on its own stock.

But using personal funds is a gamble, and you'll need to do a solid job of calculating all of your costs, so that you don't run out of money before the business can support itself.

If you want to stay in the game long enough to be profitable, you need to manage your risk properly, and taking on too much risk relative to your account size is a fast - track to becoming an emotional / gambling type of trader, which is what you want to avoid at all costs.

I heard when they outlawed gambling in second life users made a run on the banks, causing them to collapse, costing one architect thousands of real dollars that he had not converted from virtual «linden bucks» into real world cash yet.

Because of the free cost of entry, players are more willing to gamble on trying out a game.

And lockboxes continued to drive conversations around the law, the cost of games development, the press, and gambling, and not just because of EA: Guild Wars 2's mount lockboxes and Star Citizen's land claims sales reminded MMO players that monetization problems aren't just for mainstream gamers.

Even cutting the cost of characters wasn't enough for EA to recover from this and the chaos around the matter resulted in the mainstream press and European Gambling Commissions getting involved.

It isn't the sort of gambling problem that will cost them their house (read: headquarters) or cause family problems.

They have been an increasingly employed method of video game monetization in recent years — in free - to - play and premium games alike — but have been a controversial addition thanks to their cost and links to gambling.

The authors note that it's a gamble because if the political feasibility of acting doesn't improve and the costs don't decrease, it will be that much harder to take action.