Word: caps
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...include an 18,000-seat sports-and-entertainment arena. But all those deals are contingent upon Britain's scrapping several gambling restrictions by 2006, including a ban on casino advertising and a 24-hour waiting period for first-time patrons. Last month, after the government indicated that it may cap the number of slot machines at the largest casinos at 1,250 (roughly half the number in the Bellagio), Las Vegas Sands threatened to curtail its multibillion-dollar deals. "Most U.S. operators are jumping in with both feet," says Scott Fisher, managing director of the Innovation Group, "but with...
...been my view for some time that this industry will consolidate into two leading large-cap operators,” he said in a conference call last Thursday to discuss the Caesar’s deal. “Clearly the industry has now moved in that direction...
Equal to my mother's exquisite needle artistry was her compassion for others. Every Sunday she and my father would load our car with extra clothing and homemade meals for the children at the local orphanage. One week I protested when my mother wanted to give away my favorite cap. She reminded me that I would get a new one the very next day but that orphans had no parents to buy them caps. Then she added something I have never forgotten: "There's nothing that can warm your heart more than making someone else feel better...
...panels are part of the solution - the number has grown exponentially in the past five years in Europe - but aren't dependable. There's an equally urgent need for investment in transmission and distribution, often the chief culprit in blackouts. Colette Lewiner, a Paris-based energy expert at consultants Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, points to two problems. Unlike power generation, transmission and distribution networks are "natural" monopolies that can't be liberalized; it makes no sense to build competing electric lines. Regulators have pressured transmission companies to cut costs, and the easiest way to do that is to stop investing...
...light-colored clothing; spray your clothes and skin with an insect repellent that contains DEET; stay on cleared, well-traveled trails; avoid moist, shady areas covered with leaf litter or low-lying vegetation; don't sit on the ground or on stone walls; keep long hair under a cap or tied back; and do a full-body tick check...