The Dodd-Frank Act mandates that the agency ban event contracts tied to terrorism, war, gambling and other matters contrary to the public interest.
The Dodd-Frank Act, the regulatory overhaul law passed in response to the financial crisis, mandated that the agency ban event contracts tied to terrorism, war, gambling and other matters contrary to the "public interest".
VIENNA — In his opening to China more than 40 years ago, Richard M. Nixon made a huge Cold War gamble that he could forge a working relationship with a Communist country that had built a small arsenal of nuclear weapons and clearly had long-term ambitions for global power.
Kennedy's desire to go to the moon was a Cold War gamble designed to get us to leap frog ahead of the Soviets in technology; after his death getting there by the end of 1960s became a matter of national will.
War is gambling don't get used to any winnings.
Police battling to prevent young Muslims heading to Syria to fight in the country's bitter civil war will gamble that they can persuade women in the community to inform on family members determined to head to the war zone.
This "city of indulgence," as W. H. Auden called it, has been, variously, the Western gateway to China, the busy nexus of international trade in the 17th century, the center of education for the Jesuits' Far Eastern missions, a sleepy summer retreat for 19th-century Hong Kong tycoons and, lately, a rather louche spot best known for triad wars and gambling.
SAN FRANCISCO The European Union recently took a shot at the United States in little-noticed trade war over internet gambling, charging that the United States unfairly interferes with internet gambling in ways that run contrary to World Trade Organization rules.
In 1946, a former Marine sergeant is hired by an Arkansas prosecutor to wage war on illegal gambling and prostitution.
His father, Geoffrey, a colonel much decorated in the first world war, wrecked through gambling his marriage to Estelle, the daughter of the Italian Marquis de Sarzano, and a society beauty of the 1920s.
But half a year later, Adelson appears to be winning his war against online gambling.
