On a clear December afternoon, Roger Thomas was completing a four-month renovation of the high-limit slot-machine room at the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
Although it is illegal in America to serve alcohol to people under 21 (an absurdly high age-limit by European standards), teenagers get booze with ease in fraternity houses.
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Then there are the high-fee, low-limit cards, which have gotten some issuers in trouble with regulators.
The Obama administration wants Congress to require background checks for all gun sales, ban military-style weapons and limit high-capacity ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
If the Broadcast Flag cannot be used, program providers will have to weigh whether the risk of theft is too great over free, off-air broadcasting and could limit such high-quality programming to only cable, satellite and other more secure delivery systems.
While oil prices are high and economic-austerity laws limit increases in public spending, there is more or less enough to go around.
However, a firmer U.S. dollar index that is hovering near a seven-month high continues to limit buying interest in gold and silver markets.
Thomas Frist says he will immediately end doctor-hospital partnerships (and dismantle existing ones), tone down Columbia's high-pressure marketing tactics and limit the firm's expansion into communities where Columbia has met (and often steamrollered) local opposition.
Reforms in the Senate and House bills will impose annual out-of-pocket caps, for the first time placing an upper limit on what individuals with high-cost chronic conditions will have to pay out-of-pocket.
The stronger U.S. dollar index that scored another fresh 7.5-month high overnight continues to limit buying interest not only in gold and silver, but in many other commodity markets, too.
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Health and Human Services officials say competition among insurers, as well as provisions to limit their financial risk from attracting high-cost consumers, will exert downward pressure on premiums, and point to the tax subsidies that will limit many consumers' costs.
But when we do alpine skiing, the limit is the 100m-high slope we have.
The stimulus measure, approved by the Senate Friday after earlier approval by the House, extends the 26-week limit on unemployment benefits to 39 weeks -- longer in states with high unemployment rates.
We believe this will limit the business model to high single-digit operating margins.
Not surprisingly, the over-limit fees for such cards are high, too.
Any realistic, practical plan to limit tax expenditure cuts to a high-income group would require a phase-in of the cuts or other accommodations, which would add to marginal tax rates, reduce the potential revenue gain, and make the resulting tax change more regressive.
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Yet, it is full of items of interest, including a new millionaires tax and a renewed proposal to limit the value of tax preferences for high-income households.
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If the joint committee decides, for example, that part of a balanced deal should be to eliminate tax subsidies for oil and gas companies or corporate jets, or if they decide to limit the value of itemized deductions for high-income earners as the President has called for, they can do that and they would raise revenue through doing that.
They helped decide to limit Palin's initial media contact to high-profile interviews with Charlie Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, which all McCain sources admit were highly damaging.
Mr. Ma said he made the move to comply with regulations on online payment services but the decision brought him into the debate over Chinese corporate governance issues and heightened concerns that the government may try to further limit foreign investment in the nation's high-flying Internet sector.
So the trick is to limit the low-volume foods and eat mostly high-volume ones.
Early Sunday, New York officials issued a high-wind warning for the Tappan Zee Bridge, reducing the speed limit to 35 mph and prohibiting empty trailers and motorcycles on the bridge.
The campaign was launched in September by the police, who wanted to limit the ability of street drinkers to buy cheaper, high-strength alcoholic drinks at Ipswich's 122 off-licensed outlets.
"Such increased usage has been compounded by an increase in the HGV weight limit to 44 tonnes and a move to super-single high-pressure tyres, which all adds to the damage caused to the bridge's road surfaces, " Mr Colford said.
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To limit the number of tourists while still enjoying healthy profits, Botswana has focused on developing high-end safari tourism.
Despite these positive attributes, we have modest expectations for Invokana and the SGLT-2 class because the drug and class are associated with a relatively high rate of genital infections which will limit uptake in our view.
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Critics say the measure will be ineffective because it does not limit the size of dairy-based drinks, like milkshakes and fruit juices, which often contain high amounts of sugar and are calorie laden.
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