Mark Bartelstein, an N.B.A. agent for 25 years, may be the most outspoken critic of player gambling — a position he held long before he began representing Crittenton last month.
Still, BNP Paribas, which spent nearly 5 million euros ($4.7 million) on the campaign, is taking a gamble by positioning itself as the exception in a tarred-and-feathered industry, some advertising experts said.
"Austerity" may be, as Joseph Stiglitz argued recently, "Europe's man-made disaster", yet the coalition government of Fine Gael and Labour has gambled on positioning Ireland as the poster child for Frankfurt and Berlin's extended experiment in disaster denial.
The paper calls for research "which helps to position gambling as an economically valuable and socially responsible leisure pursuit".
On Friday, Morgan Stanley came forward with its own analysis of which banks might need to raise capital, the latest in a series of private estimates being tallied to allow gambling investors to position themselves to profit from fluctuations in the stock prices of the banks.
The NCAA, however, remains committed to its opposition, and its classification of daily fantasy as gambling means its position likely won't change soon.
We shift the focus onto the spatial contexts, the rooms and the venues, in which gambling machines are positioned.
So far, Mr. Obama has largely stuck to his past positions, gambling that the 51 percent of the popular vote he won in this month's election constitutes a mandate that will force Republicans to back down.
Some of this may be traders taking short positions - gambling the price would fall - and now taking their profits.
Watson and shadow health and social care secretary, Jon Ashworth, have spent a year reviewing the party's position on gambling and have already promised to ban gambling companies from sponsoring football shirts.
