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...All the movement on governance, stewardship, M&A guidelines and so forth is part of an attempt to make the stock market look a little less like a rigged riverboat casino and a little more like a soft, well-ventilated...
...Crumbling riverboat casinos in St Louis and dog tracks in New Orleans are quite a contrast to the glamour of Ocean’s Eleven and Casino....
...Now Naga, which started off as a riverboat casino on the Mekong in Phnom Penh in the mid-1990s, is pushing to capitalise on what it describes as the “huge opportunities” created by Macau’s woes....
...As Mr Loveman says, “in Las Vegas, you could go to a 40-year-old casino that looked like a riverboat or go a few blocks down the street and play the identical games at the Bellagio, one of the most beautiful...
...The industry now expects a repeat of the rapid state by state legalisation of riverboat gaming in the 1990s....
...Casino, 1995 There are some places, though, that even the brutal gangster Santoro would tell you, you’re not supposed to rob. Such as, say, schools....
...“Visiting a riverboat casino or one in Atlantic city, you will notice the quality of the casino is better,” he says....
...Outside Las Vegas and Atlantic City, at riverboats and local casinos, the contrast is even more stark. Slots account for 75 or 80 per cent per cent of revenues, while baccarat hardly figures....
...Some of the legal forms convey the special grimness of state-sponsored vice, which those who have visited riverboat casinos in desperate Mississippi Delta towns will be familiar with....
...But Harrah’s said plans to quickly rebuild on the Gulf Coast were spurred by Mississippi’s recent legislative decision to allow casinos to be built on shore rather than on fragile riverboats....
...Isle of Capri Casinos, which operates riverboat casinos in Louisiana and Mississippi, is one such company. Shares in the group fell 2.9 per cent to $23.47....
...That – and not the romance of paddle-wheel steamers – is why so many casinos are located on riverboats in the Mississippi River, which marks the border between many Midwestern states....
...Damages appeared worst for riverboat casinos. Gambling taxes accounted for nearly 10 per cent of Mississippi's state's budget last year and were one of its top sources of revenue....
...casinos that ply the Mississippi River....
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