Hints and tips:
...The older I get, the more random life reveals itself to be: a vast, unhappy casino where nobody can win a bet against the house....
...Levittown was a newly developed suburban community about 20 miles up the Delaware River from central Philadelphia. Everyone who lived there was white. William and Daisy were black....
...Exotic trees gifted by foreign dignitaries in the past line the Oos River and change colour throughout the year....
...The Crown Casino complex and a row of eateries dominate the waterfront....
...“In case we might be trapped in a river, or trough.” The snorkel will help to keep the engine running while methods of escape are negotiated....
...The River View Mezzanine has a soaring ceiling and tons of natural light; the River View suite is a single-level loft, with a sexy open-plan bathroom....
...Crown Melbourne, which is situated on the south bank of the Yarra River, made over A$1bn in revenue from junkets between 2015 and 2020 while Crown Perth raked in more than A$320m over a similar period....
...Why even bother to pretend that a market based around highly volatile speculation and bright-coloured pictures is anything but a casino?...
...Twenty years ago, when integrated casino resorts were the rural-luxury paradigm here, the Baillies were already talking construction footprints, land conservation and food provenance....
...Mainland authorities are particularly keen to see casinos invest in the “Greater Bay Area” — a series of mainland cities which ring Hong Kong and Macau in the Pearl River Delta that Beijing hopes to develop...
...Ten years was long enough to let dust settle and approved wild flowers dress the banks of the infinitely adaptable Bow Back Rivers....
...contends with a loss of tourism revenues caused by the Covid-19 crisis, which has also dented demand for hydropower, a cornerstone industry in a country that has borrowed heavily to build dams on the Mekong river...
...so much as an ice-show rejected by a Las Vegas casino as being too gaudy....
...It used to be a convenient spot for European invaders, and its former marshes by the river are now the perfect site for a warehouse....
...After a narrow tunnel, and across the Almone river, you will find the Appia Antica Park visitor information centre on your right (around 600m into the ride)....
...It scarcely mattered that the gains of globalisation were scooped up by the super-rich, that markets became casinos and that fiscal fundamentalism was widening social divisions....
...It winds for 18 miles along the River Camel to Padstow, the fishing port transformed by the chef Rick Stein....
...Before the drilling boom a decade ago, the reservation’s main source of income was its casino and federal payments....
...Some, such as Villa Carlotta or Villa del Balbianello — a location for both Casino Royale and Star Wars — turned out to harbour magnificent botanic gardens, open to the public....
...At the Jerónimos monastery, a 16th-century Unesco-listed complex set just back from the river, the few other tourists were mostly from Portugal....
...But throughout the nation’s rapid economic development — the transformational decades after the 1950s known as “the miracle on the Han [river]” — Korean students with means or a scholarship flocked overseas...
...Today, New York City residents can theoretically hop on the Port Authority train across the Hudson River to wager on everything from National Football League games to cricket, darts, golf and more....
...A river ferry took me across the mouth of the Rhône. I laughed for joy at the sight of flamingos on a salt pan, sleeping on one leg, heads under pink wings spread like Japanese fans....
...Just across the Pearl River from Hong Kong sits what the Chinese Communist party believes is a model for ending the crisis in Asia’s main financial hub: Macau....
...Hundreds of casinos close to China’s border launder revenues from a drugs market the UN estimates to be worth more than $60bn....
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