Las Vegas casinos are prohibited by the Nevada Gaming Control Board from taking bets on Olympic competition.
But the state takeover of Detroit would be more sweeping, akin to the control board over Washington, D.
On Monday, Sterlite said the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board had ordered it shut after locals complained of breathing problems.
Zynga, behind the popular Farmville game, has asked for an "application for a preliminary finding of suitability" from the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
The White House has indicated to Nevada's two senators that Clinton plans to appoint Bill Bible, chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Tobacco farmers, who used to cohabit comfortably with the Tobacco Control Board, now have one big customer, Rembrandt, which has squeezed their margins.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board has issued a 30-day licence to allow websites to compete for customers, with UltimatePoker.com the first to go live.
With the help of a presidentially appointed financial-control board, Williams used this power to begin dismantling the bloated government Barry had built over two decades.
In New Brunswick, the rent control board is responsible for setting the maximum annual rent increase, within the constraint of 2.5% to 5.5%, based on economic conditions.
"These companies have a lot to lose if they engage in activity that could be looked at negatively, " warns Dennis Neilander, chairman of Nevada's powerful Gaming Control Board.
"These companies have a lot to lose if they engage in activity that could be looked at negatively, " says Dennis Neilander, chairman of Nevada's powerful Gaming Control Board.
Amazingly, Mr Soulsby retained the support of Washington's control board appointed by Congress two years ago to curtail the inept and profligate management of Mayor Marion Barry right to the end.
An application with the Nevada Gaming Control Board to determine if Zynga is fit to hold a gambling license had the stock off to the races on Thursday.
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The new appointee, Dean McClain, has already won crucial approvals to sell slots in Nevada, where he told the state's Gaming Control Board that he expects to have 200 employees within two years.
"But if it can be made locally and the price comes down, we could have big problems, " says Narong Suwanapiam, deputy secretary general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board in Bangkok.
If regulators grant PokerStars a license, "you are essentially trading your credibility away, " said Mark Lipparelli, the former chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, who does consulting for rival gambling companies and others.
Finally, Congress and the White House stepped in, and over the next few months most of the powers of the mayor, city council and school board were handed over to the unelected control board.
In 2006 the Illinois Pollution Control Board adopted mercury pollution standards of its own, which required all coal plants to install technologies to reduce mercury pollution by 90% or more by 2009 and 2013.
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The wholesale industry is much less happy not least because this week's judgment surely has implications for a case brought by Costco, the nation's largest wine-retailer, against the state liquor control board of its home state, Washington.
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Pincus got Zynga to announce yesterday that the company had applied for a preliminary finding of suitability from the Nevada Gaming Control Board to promote the idea that the company might find salvation in online gambling.
But officialdom is struggling as the criminal businesses speed up, evading regulations by adapting their behaviour: more like big firms than small ones, says Matt Nice of the International Narcotics Control Board, which enforces the UN conventions on drugs.
"Once it gets down to the real heart of the matter, a processor is a processor, it is only the interface that makes a difference, " said Marc McDermott, chief of the electronic services division of the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G.
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The also climate-controlled Pronto vending machines will be stocked with 45 varieties of some 500 bottles in total. (In Pennsylvania, wines and pricing are dictated by the State Control Board.) And, yes, you can buy as many bottles as you like.
It would allow shareholders controlling more than 5% of a firm's shares, which they must have held for at least two years, to nominate just two rival candidates not enough to control the board on the official proxy.
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You can also add software control to the board, which will work in conjunction with the hardware, bringing universal control interfaces to the otherwise space-limited Arduino.
Supervisory board members are supposed to control and advise the executive board (the Vorstand).
Instead, they're attempting to take control of the board without any compensation to shareholders.
The amount of collateral should not be a determining factor of effective control, the board proclaimed.
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One favoured solution involves yet another layer of technology that would allow the driver to control on-board systems using spoken commands.
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