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...The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and economic implications of gambling in the United States. This report presents the principal findings o...

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...United Kingdom, and its major variations. Since its invention in 1934, modern bingo has evolved into multiple variations, with each jurisdiction’s gambling laws regulating how the game is played. There are also nearly unlimited patterns that may be specified for play. Some patterns only require one number to be matched, up to cover-all games which award the jackpot for ...

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...United Kingdom, and its major variations. Since its invention in 1934, modern bingo has evolved into multiple variations, with each jurisdiction’s gambling laws regulating how the game is played. There are also nearly unlimited patterns that may be specified for play. Some patterns only require one number to be matched, up to cover-all games which award the jackpot for ...

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...n Francisco. Pretty, young Ellie Fenwick is walking to the market early one morning to surprise her father with some fresh mushrooms. As she passes a gambling house, she hears a gunshot and two young men emerge. One man falls dead on the pavement and the other is Johnny Montgomery, a handsome young man Ellie recognizes from seeing him previously at a dance. Johnny is holdi...

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... roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline so he could pay off gambling debts. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...ish gentleman who lives in an area of Ireland called Orristown. Dennis is passionate, proud and indebted to no one. But, Dennis has an obsession with gambling that is leading the family to ruin. When tragedy strikes, Clodagh finds herself in a situation where she must defend the family honor because “no Asshlin is ever obliged to anyone”. She marries a man she does not lov...

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...alitarian a notion for Hawaiians of the time. Rather, he was referring to Kamehameha's symbolic return in the "reanimated" form of Hawkapu regulating gambling, drinking, dancing, and the Sabbath with such severity that many Hawaiians felt oppressed, if not disillusioned. The non-missionary foreign residents were appalled and threatened retribution of their own. Economicall...

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...s the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and...

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...y its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished by the number 36, with- out too much deliberat... ...ink, this mel- ancholy thought, “Yes, I can imagine that a man may take to gambling when he sees only his last shilling between him and death.” There ... ...nly his last shilling between him and death.” There is an illusion about a gambling saloon at night as vulgar as that of a bloodthirsty drama, and jus... ...lzac sure, but the great number of the actors prevents you from seeing the gambling-demon face to face. The evening is a harmony or chorus in which al... ...he force and frenzy in a soul which impatiently waits for the opening of a gambling hell? Be- tween the daylight gambler and the player at night there... ...had power to turn the cards over and consume them. The grandest hours of a gambling saloon are not the opening ones. If Spain has bull-fights, and Rom... ...nce, he handed me his keys and purse to keep. Ten paces away some men were gambling. I heard the rattling of gold; I was twenty years old; I longed to... ...e, but I still feel an unconquerable disgust whenever I pass 133 Balzac a gambling-hell; take the money and go without me. While our fortune is at st...

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...'s use some of the profits to dine in the casino's restaurant. Do you know that eateries in gambling dens are the best in the world?" I don't. It i... ...s only I and the croupier. My capital is nearly doubled. Eli, his countenance spent, keeps gambling. His bobbing head recoils as he awakes from int... ...y, wipes tears from reddened eyes and moans: "Only your way, I guarantee, never again just gambling wildly. We wager on your brain and win, we win ... ... and screw the world. What you have just described is only the beginning. Just stick to my gambling system and it will turn out fine. Casinos every... ...ugh from the dentist and that computer guy – and we are in business." "If it survives your gambling" – I interject tranquilly. "You are such a doom... ...ing Investment Portfolios in States of Uncertainty", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 1988 "The Gambling Industry", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 1990 "Re...

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...06-13. It pointed to the existence of well over 100,000 drinking, prostitution, and gambling establishments (saloons) throughout the USA in 1870. In... ...stment Portfolios in States of Uncertainty", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 1988 "The Gambling Industry", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 1990 "Requesting...

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...stment Portfolios in States of Uncertainty", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 1988 "The Gambling Industry", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 1990 "Requestin...

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...as he wanted to lead a unquestioned life. He felt that he can waste money on gambling or on CSWs but she should not question him. Till his death sh...

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...d money to silence you and selfshly spent it all on themselves with their gambling and their drinking. You were painted as a whore and ridiculed by ...

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...here is of that sort very dangerous for the English novelist, the atmosphere captured so supremely well by Thackeray the green-lighted, close-scented gambling rooms, the shabby adventures of half-deserted spas, the shelving beaches of foreign watering-places, concealed accents, stolen passports, impoverished counts and impertinent ladies' maids.... Trollope's most serious ...

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...lock to him for his counsel. But Wooster, jealous of Jeeves's fame, decides to step in and take over as the fixer of his pal's engagement, his aunt's gambling debts and old school-mate's desire to propose marriage. How far will Bertie sink them all in the soup? Will Jeeves come to the rescue? Right Ho, Jeeves features of course Bertie and Jeeves as well as Gussie Fink-Nott...

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...f her husband, and the discovery that Phil himself is selfish and lacking in ambition, a man whose chief interests seem to lie in restaurant-life and gambling. Then comes tragedy in the loss of their little child in a horrible accident for which Phil is responsible. The splendid strength with which Alison forces him to forgive himself and the subsequent loneliness and suff...

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...region between Dawson and the MacKenzie. But Brent had that certain knack for striking gold, and due to his way of life, also had a certain knack for gambling and drinking it away. Plenty of action follows, while Brent performs his search with little or no money, runs across Snowdrift, and while a band of fellow gamblers who know of his luck follows closely on his trail, h...

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...like quality: Impersonation, deception, an aristocratic villain and the abduction of a beautiful heroine. Goldsmith himself dissipated his savings on gambling whilst a student at Trinity College Dublin and subsequently travelled in Europe sustaining himself by playing the flute and disputing doctrinal matters in monasteries and universities. Later he worked as an apothecar...

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...s a child. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley...

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...John Endlich needed to clean up his act. Gambling, drinking, a hot temper and wanderlust were the last things Rose and the kids needed. So he went to the Homesteaders Office and signed up to terraform Vesta, a chunk of a once thriving alien planet that had exploded ...