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"One of the biggest hotels in the U.S. now rises in the eastern Connecticut woods near Ledyard. Pequot Towers, a $[US]350 million hotel/convention center/casino, which opened on July 3 [1997], is a striking symbol of the Mashantucket Pequot's phenomenal success since entering the gambling business with the Foxwoods Resort Casino in 1992." (Anon., 1997, "Can The Pequots Stay On A Roll?" Business Week, July 21, page 38).
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IIT Tech is another bigtime promoter on TV "Stating we're training people for the jobs of tomorrow" - more like the past. They pay people to say things like" I used to be a marine biologist - now I'm the manager of a broadband network. What a bunch of crap. The marine biologist position sounds pretty darn good right about now. Does anybody know how to shut ITT up? What a bucn of lying sacs of manure.
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-- South Africa recently hosted the country's biggest concert tour ever by a major international artist. Canadian superstar CELINE DION opened her world tour with an unprecedented nine city tour of South Africa, playing to capacity crowds, primarily in stadiums from coast to coast. She concluded her successful South African journey with two outdoor performances in Johannesburg on February 29 and March 1.
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In Report 5-15, the SBA’s Office of Inspector General referred to the diversion of federal small business contracts to large businesses as one of the biggest challenges facing the nation today. They ... found large businesses that had illegally received federal small business contracts by fraudulently representing themselves as small businesses.
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As with any big business, it is ... a gamble from any perspective, anthropological or otherwise! Advertising, marketing, regulations/laws and court cases, as well as technology (including "tracking" various players for "comps" as well as the "Internet") will all have a bearing on the future of gambling/gaming in the United States of America (as well as the rest of the world) and will continue to influence the on-going redistribution of resources (or money) that is an on-going aspect of the gaming industry. Please consider some current (and future?) aspects of "advertising and technology" in some unusual ways when it comes to this "entertainment" industry:
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