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- 1From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 25)Byline: ANNE K. WALTERS Duquesne University has come out against a proposal to build a casino just down the street from its campus. The site, two and a half blocks from the campus, is near the present home of the...
- 2From:CFO, The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives (Vol. 14, Issue 10)Mirage Resorts' CFO and treasurer Daniel R Lee has completed the purchase of the Boardwalk Casino Inc, an inconspicuous casino adjoining other big hotels and megaresorts in the Las Vegas Strip. The vicinity is the...
- 3From:Journal of Business Strategies (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This paper studies the causal effects of changes in unemployment rates and U.S. S&P 500 returns on changes in stock returns of selected eight U.S. casinos individually. Monthly data from January, 1982...
- 4From:Flutist Quarterly (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring a dead-of-winter visit to the sunshine-drenched venue of the NFA's 40th-anniversary convention in Las Vegas, I picked up a number of interesting tidbits of information. Among them, I learned that an average...
- 5From:Gaming Law Review and EconomicsOVERVIEW: THIS ARTICLE USES a question-and-answer format to explain proxy betting and distinguish it from both land-based casino betting and video-streaming betting. The roles of the proxy player (proxy), proxy...
- 6From:Gaming Law Review (Vol. 11, Issue 6)"WE DID IT! WE DID IT! For the 13th year in a row no bills to expand gambling passed the Missouri Legislature". (1) So read the headline on the Web site of Casino Watch, an anti-gambling organization based in Missouri,...
- 7From:Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBased on a re-analysis of data from a qualitative study of the work experience of 36 women casino workers, this article examines the contributions and personal characteristics of the 13 women in the sample who described...
- 8From:TCI (Vol. 32, Issue 4)Gambling on the appeal of a futuristic space environment as a successful formula for casino design, the Las Vegas Hilton has launched the SpaceQuest Casino as a gateway to Star Trek The Experience. Conceived as a virtual...
- 9From:The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol. 556) Peer-ReviewedAlthough legalized gambling, and in particular casino gambling, has become an increasingly important American leisure activity, it has not escaped extensive controversy. Among the many evils forecast for communities that...
- 10From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 34, Issue 3)When actor Kevin Costner and his investment partners needed replacement windows for the Midnight Star Casino they were renovating in Deadwood, S.D., fast delivery was a prerequisite. While the partners were willing to...
- 11From:Multinational Monitor (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe rapid expansion of the US gambling industry is drawing to a close with the formation of populist coalitions against the industry and the passage of a law creating an investigative commission. The industry has...
- 12From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 81, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe casino environment, consisting of employees and customers, can present a risk for exposure to infectious diseases, especially bacterial diseases that are found on casino gaming chips. The purpose of this study was...
- 13From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 48, Issue 5)Staff Construction is nearing the halfway mark on the $205 million Agua Caliente Casino Hotel, a 16-story, 340-room, luxury hotel in Rancho Mirage, Calif., which is being developed by the Agua Caliente Band of...
- 14From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEmployers can be held liable for the sexually harassing actions of their customers. While many businesses employ curvaceous women in skimpy costumes to attract customers and then fill the customers full of booze in an...
- 15From:CFO, The Magazine for Senior Financial ExecutivesMirage may have bought Boardwalk but the game here is just beginning. If all the hotel building by corporate players along the Las Vegas Strip seems vaguely familiar, it may be because you've done it yourself-- on a...
- 16From:Building & Landscapes (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStephen Fan, curator SubUrbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape Kerri Culhane, curator Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee, 1923-1968...
- 17From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 251)The same week Andrew Cuomo announced the ban on fracking, a New York State board recommended the approval of three sites for the development of resort casinos. Expansion of gambling has been a Cuomo priority, sold as an...
- 18From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 197)The fifty-something lab technician swabbing my arm before a routine test this past May nodded toward the symbol on my T-shirt. Did you get that at Foxwoods?" she asked, referring to one of two Indian casinos in the...
- 19From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week"Background Acromegaly is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality, and increased aortic root diameter has been recently described in the literature as a possible feature of acromegalic cardiomyopathy....
- 20From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 48, Issue 9)Staff Chicago-based Lucien Lagrange Architects is constructing a high-end hotel and entertainment expansion for the Blue Chip Casino riverboat and hotel in Michigan City, Ind. The $130 million, 330,000-sf project...