Sentences with phrase «of gambling dollars»

There's a finite numbers of gambling dollars out there, and little will change that.

Both parties have profited from tens of millions of gambling dollars, with the Democrats supported by Native American money and the Republicans by Las Vegas and Atlantic City money.

Not exact matches

In this episode of «Inside China», CNBC's Eunice Yoon finds out what's hurting Macau's billion - dollar gambling industry.

When New York floated the idea of expanding its Quick Draw video lottery, Kindt noted that «every dollar that is dropped into gambling is a dollar that is lost to the consumer economy.»

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.

The demise of Lehman brothers» New York Times and GP gamble paid twenty million dollar fine this the FTC which is planning to file.

It is designed to make Wall Street appear as a savior, not an arsonist — and to depict the Fed and Treasury as protecting the welfare of American citizens by shoveling billions of dollars at the banks whose gambles have caused the crisis.

This week, Premier Clark announced that she is ready to gamble nine billion of your dollars to start construction of the Site C dam this coming summer.

Big corporation with millions of dollars in budget can afford to spend money on even the most absurd things; they can afford to gamble with a few million dollars on research but not you.

Some people pay hundreds of dollars to go buy books or go to seminars that teach on some of these things, and it is always a gamble whether these secular ideas will work or not.

It has no bearing on anything that really means anything unless you are a gambling addict and have thousands of dollars riding on a game.

This led to the joking idea last year that we should create a mutual fund of baseball gambling, quietly socking a few hundred dollars away every year instead using a boring ol' 401 (k).

Even those enlightened enough to recognize that addictive gambling is as much a disease as alcoholism or narcotics addiction often forget that gambling carries a staggering extra penalty: the terrifying mountain of debt built up over the years, the thousands upon thousands of dollars owed to sharks and bookies.

More importantly, though, millions of dollars can change hands in the gambling and DFS industries thanks to that decision and the line moves that follow.

Sports gambling isn't an issue of teams and games, it's an issue of numbers and dollars.

Bettors around the world have been plunking down their gambling dollars on both sides of the series wager creating a huge divide between the Pros and the Joes.

Edward Walsh, the former politically powerful Suffolk County Conservative Party leader, was sentenced Tuesday to 2 years in prison following his conviction on federal charges of wire fraud and theft of government services for pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Suffolk sheriff's department while golfing, gambling and politicking on county time.

Walsh was convicted last year of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Suffolk sheriff's department while golfing, gambling and politicking on county time.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign warGambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign wargambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

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.

Local mayors and county executives across the state, including Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings, say they back the amendment because host communities will receive millions of dollars in revenue from the gambling centers for tax relief.

«Spending SNAP benefits on cigarettes and alcohol, or gambling and strip clubs, serves no purpose to help ease a family's hardship, nor is it the best use of our limited taxpayer dollars.»

Over the years, gambling has moved from the back rooms of candy stores and the illegal numbers racket to legalized multi-million dollar casinos no longer confined to Las Vegas.

«When millions and millions of dollars are spent on lobbying, there's no way for a disinterested decision to be made,» said Stephen Shafer, of Coalition Against Gambling.

The awarding of a license to the Lago Resort & Casino in the Finger Lakes Region capped a 25 - year quest by developer Thomas Wilmot, who has spent millions of dollars, formed multiple alliances with Native American tribes and at one point learned Spanish in his effort to cash in on gambling.

Gambling conglomerates, and other developers, who have all paid $ 1 million dollars each for the privilege of being considered for a casino site, attended a mandatory session held by Governor Cuomo's Gaming Commission.

The governor's change of plans come amid reports that the gambling company Genting, contributed over $ 2 million dollars to a lobby group closely associated with the governor.

The New York Times first reported that the gambling conglomerate Genting donated over $ 2 million dollars to the Committee, just weeks before Cuomo made Genting's plan to build a casino and convention center in Queens the centerpiece of his State of the State plan.

The hearing comes two days after the New York Times reported that a lobby group closely associated with Governor Cuomo, the Committee to Save New York, had received over $ 2 million dollars from the gambling corporation Genting, just weeks before Cuomo made a Genting convention center project the centerpiece of his State of the State message.

Some donors voluntarily disclosed their involvement — and just about all of them, gambling and real estate interests in particular, had business before the state, and millions upon millions of dollars at stake in the decisions Cuomo made.

Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered - not gambling in stocks, but service rendered.

The governor's change of plans come amid reports that the gambling company Genting contributed over two million dollars to a lobbying group closely associated with the governor.

Wharton, 53, of Manchester, allegedly took thousands of dollars in cash withdrawals and advances from the fire company's credit and debit cards to gamble at casinos in the Finger Lakes, Central New York and Las Vegas, the comptroller said.

The post comes around the same time its revealed that The Committee to Save New York received millions of dollars from gambling interests.

Michael Wilton, executive director of the New York Gaming Association, an Albany - based lobbying group representing the state's nine VLT parlors, said putting slots at Belmont «will just cannibalize gambling dollars and threaten existing jobs.»

«They'll give (the charities) pennies on the dollar and massively expand online gambling in the state of New York,» Krueger said.

Is fusion research funding of around a billion dollars per year for even 50 more years a reasonable gamble?

In the primary scenario, a gambling simulation, a person was asked to pick one of four cards and told he would get a dollar if he picked the right one.

This is a fairly unprecedented concept in the half - billion - dollar online dating industry, which is the third most lucrative Internet business after, of course, porn and gambling.

A remake of the 1974 Karel Reisz movie of the same name, Wyatt's film starts with a nail - biting game of blackjack at a Korean - run gambling party, thousands of dollars of our anti-hero Jim Bennett's (Wahlberg) money on the line.

Unless you're a die hard fan of video poker, you're much better off saving that dollar and taking a gamble on any of the other releases this week has to offer.

School districts all over this country then gambled millions of dollars on technological quick - fixes, even as ample research tells us that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of metal detectors.

Both Barnes and Noble and FastPencil have their companies» names at stake and will select books of the highest caliber for physical placement; where taking a risk on a previously unknown author may mean gambling a few dollars on an ebook, there is significantly more money invested in purchasing a print edition, so readers want to know that the book has been carefully screened for quality.

These people gamble, in a sense, and each investment is very small (relatively to their wealth)- tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes a hundred or two thousands, and they make a lot of these.

After all, someone who just lost hundreds or thousands of dollars gambling is probably more likely to leave with ill feelings.

Many thousands of dollars can be gambled at a fight, so weapons, guns and drugs often find their way to the ring and dog fighters have been linked to other kinds of violence.

There is a big gambling culture in Australia, so do like the locals do and get involved by sticking a few dollars on something — there is no shortage of sporting events to bet on.

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.

They were about to move into a new multibillion - dollar world that had virtually no regulation — a burgeoning Wild West of gambling centered on a game they'd spent countless hours playing online, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

I heard from people whose loot box habits led to skin gambling and eventual debt, teenagers who spent all the money from their first job on loot boxes, and even a 16 - year - old who told me that, at 11, he used his mom's credit card without her knowledge to buy hundreds of dollars worth of in - app purchases.