But the popularity of gambling on the internet, and a handful of East German licences granted in 1990, have provided private operators with loopholes that regional governments have been trying to stop up.
While he's beating up on the iPad, however, Doctorow takes a moment to tell the rest of us to stop beating up on Mom.
Because it was bankrupt, Cuba was forced to stop propping up the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
Would he stop running up and down rope lines like an afternoon game-show host?
It is certainly no reason for the Fed to stop pushing up interest rates.
The government is also under pressure to stop propping up the finance sector.
If we're to achieve sustainable growth we need to stop beating up the only people who can solve our economic problems.
"China hopes that Japan take effective measures to stop stirring up tension in the East China Sea and making irresponsible remarks, " it said.
Arabia, our favorite McOil, had announced it would stop serving up the quadrillions, but we'd take care of that with a good old American diet.
"I can't stop jumping up and down for joy, " she said.
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Those financial firms that prospered during the bull market are urgently looking for ways to make money if shares stop going up, or, even worse, slump.
It provides roughly 50% of the U.S. electricity sector's needs--even with the "going green" craze at full throttle, power companies aren't going to stop gobbling up coal.
But China's Defence Ministry has denied the Japanese allegations saying they "were against the facts" and urging Japan to "stop stirring up tension in the East China Sea".
Two weeks ago, the Congress party declared it would stop propping up the minority United Front government unless it dropped one of its coalition partners, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (a regional party).
Or should the buck stop higher up the pecking order, perhaps with Marvin Odum, president of the entire Americas division, and the man ultimately responsible not just for the Alaska fiasco, but for its lackluster performance overall?
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"Not just the cars that aren't idling at traffic lights, but starting from a dead stop takes up more fuel also, so we are saving thousands of gallons of fuel per roundabout per year, " says the Republican mayor.
So it was in July 2011 that the TWC issued an order requiring ATI to stop signing up new students in certain programs due to suspected over-reporting of employment related to the vocational training received in those programs.
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Because - politics aside - a lot of the adjustments that the US economy needed to make to stop running up debts with the rest of the world and to compete in global markets are already well under way.
On what we would suggest George Osborne do, he said that "you have got to stop-up a whole lot of tax loopholes", for example the "glaring dodge" of very wealthy people avoiding stamp duty by owning their homes in the name of foreign companies.
Mr Zygner said that he noticed a knife on the ground, picked it up and stabbed Mr Kulinski in the back in a bid to stop him beating up his co-defendant.
Groups set up to stop services being taken away from Stafford Hospital need to join up, according to a campaigner.
Mason's best stop came a few minutes later when he got his glove up to stop Thomas Vanek's hard shot from the right circle, and recovered in time to stop Vanek's attempt to cash in the rebound.
So that underlines that Barrichello would have won the race regardless of Hamilton's pit-stop mix-up.
Jersey's waste could be turned into building materials to stop the build up of ash, according to a deputy.
The key is to stop beating yourself up about it and get back on track as soon as possible.
Drivers with bladders of steel might want to make such a run without a stop to fill up .
An extra wall could be built outside St Aubin Harbour to stop it silting up so quickly, harbour officials have said.
So what's to stop them serving up personalized advertisements for products when the gaze of our glasses rest upon those products?
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