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Legalized Gambling: For and Against

Legalized Gambling: For and Against

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Nick Gillespie holds that opponents of legalized gambling, in the name of morality, try to "strip individuals of the right to make moral decisions" He asserts further that people providing gaming are not predators, and most of their customers are ...
Cause for Concern: Report ... to the Reappraisal and ...

Cause for Concern: Report ... to the Reappraisal and ...

Health and Welfare Association of Allegheny County. Task Force on Youth Problems

2The following members of the Task Force dissent from the inclusion of this recommendation: Hugh Gray, Stephen Mahon, Frank Reed, Don Smith, Richard L. Thornburgh, Patrick Tamilia. Abstaining: John O'Malley, William Sajowitz.
The Luck Business

The Luck Business

Robert Goodman

In this damning indictment of legalized gambling, Goodman documents how this business, which generates more than $40 billion dollars a year in revenues, is also the cause of myriad economic and social problems for the very communities that ...
Report of the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, ...

Report of the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, ...

Kenya. Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission

2-3 115 Mark Freeman and Priscilla Hayner, Op cit., p. 137 1 16 Elliot Abrams, " Truth Without Justice," in Robert I. Rotberg & Dennis Thompson, (eds.). Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions, Princeton University Press 117 Aryeh  ...
Casinonomics: The Socioeconomic Impacts of the Casino Industry

Casinonomics: The Socioeconomic Impacts of the Casino Industry

Douglas M. Walker

UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal 14(1): 15-26. Walker, DM., and J.D. Jackson. 1998. New goods and economic growth: Evidence from legalized gambling. Review of Regional Studies 28(2): 47-69. Walker, DM., and J.D. Jackson.
The Governor's Cost Control Task Force, Illinois

The Governor's Cost Control Task Force, Illinois

Illinois. Governor's Cost Control Task Force

The annual saving will amount to almost $28,000 in state and $28,000 in federal funds. The Military and Naval Department was established under the Military and Naval Code of Illinois in 1909. It encompasses the army and air national guards ...
The Report of the Violence Prevention Advisory Task Force

The Report of the Violence Prevention Advisory Task Force

Minnesota. Violence Prevention Advisory Task Force

Tom Trow Ann Truax James Trudeau Kao Vang Ma Vang Sy Vang Kris VanHoof Jocelyn VanKnight Lisa Venable Dudley Void Mark Vukelich Bill Wagner Claudia Wallace Gardner Willie Wallace Steve Walsh Peg Wangensteen Geol Weirs ...
Adolescent Gambling

Adolescent Gambling

Mark Griffiths

Adolescent Gambling is the first book to address the issue of underage gambling. It raises the crucial issue of who is to blame - is it something about the personality of the young person or is it the addictive nature of the machines?
2005 Final Report of the Task Force on the Research Enterprise

2005 Final Report of the Task Force on the Research Enterprise

University of Michigan. Medical School. Task Force on the Research Enterprise

Mike Grossman, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Medical TMu School mr- Ravi Birla, Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School Dan Eitzman, Department of Internal Medicine ...
Gambling and the Public Interest

Gambling and the Public Interest

Peter Collins

Provides a probing exploration of all the issues confronting us with regard to the legalization and regulation of gambling.
Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.
Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling

Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling

David Schwartz

Roll the Bones tells the story of gambling: where it came from, how it has changed, and where it is now.
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide

Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide

Brian Fugere

A task force has been assembled..." These are the empty calories of business communication. And, unfortunately, they're the rule.
Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to ...

Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to ...

Nicholas Foulkes

This is a tale of money, gambling and sporting obsession; of rogues and rascals, outrageous criminality, aristocratic complacency, and a gripping investigation to expose the most audacious sporting plot of the age.
Las Vegas For Dummies

Las Vegas For Dummies

Mary Herczog

Don't forget to check out Casino Gambling For Dummies, by Kevin Blackwood and Max Rubin (Wiley Publishing, Inc.), for clear, concise tips on gambling strategies. The store's knowledgeable clerks are happy to provide on-the-spot expert ...

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