It includes lotteries, racetrack betting, raffles and prizes (like a trip or a car).
Accordingly, we conclude that the proposed lotteries are not within the prohibition of the Wire Act.
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This is hardly a new trick: after the revolutionary war, lotteries were used to pay for schools.
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To encourage the use of receipts, the government held lotteries for prizes using receipts as lottery tickets.
There was a time when the finance ministry kept a firm grip on Italy's lotteries and betting.
If there were a handful of lotteries in fierce competition, none would be able to make excessive profits.
For employees with chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease, lotteries might help encourage adherence to ongoing therapies.
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State-protected lotteries and horse-races generally offer terrible odds for punters, while their sponsoring governments have imposed hefty sin taxes.
Now China, faced with a fast-expanding budget deficit, is trying to harness public enthusiasm for lotteries to boost its revenues.
There are 43 states with lotteries now, and that increased use of lotteries seems to have coincided with the bull market.
The reason: for years state lotteries have been thwarted in their efforts to sell lottery tickets online by the federal government.
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The Horst photos come from the collection of Gert Elfering, a Munich, Germany, entrepreneur who made his money promoting lotteries on television.
The immigration system is bureaucratic, arbitrary, and complicated, with rigid and overlapping quotas, national lotteries, and 25 different visa categories and subcategories.
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Government lotteries helped finance the American Revolution and thrived until they were outlawed during the 1800s because of rigged drawings and other scandals.
Strutt has invested his pool of winnings mostly in federal government-backed debt securities rather than in the insurance annuities most state lotteries buy.
The 346-page report followed toddlers who won lotteries to join Head Start in several states and those who didn't through the third grade.
The Health Lottery has been set up to oversee 51 society lotteries, each representing a different area in England, Wales and Scotland.
GTech Holdings (nyse: GTK - news - people ) makes software and fulfillment systems that allow governments to manage public lotteries.
Under the proposal, state lotteries would be prohibited from selling tickets online, although some games would be allowed in public places over public networks.
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Industry special pleading helps square legislators' hostility to online betting with their willingness to allow online state lotteries and online betting on horse racing.
So too will the recurring arguments about so-called 'health rationing' and 'postcode lotteries' as yet more high-tech, high-cost treatments become available, but at what price?
True, California exempts winnings from its own state lotteries from tax.
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He has since back-tracked to propose a boycott of state-run lotteries, but not before winning the support of a respected employers' representative for his more radical idea.
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Later, the Depression sparked the rise of parimutuel horse racing, which was followed by the rise of lotteries again in the 1970s in states battered by inflation.
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It is so goofy that the United States is one big casino now, a confederation of lotteries, but betting on sports is driven underground in 49 states.
Like lotteries, which can be viewed as harmful but also help to fund state budgets, cigarettes are not a golden goose that one stubs out randomly or quickly.
It has allowed practice jerseys to be used as inventory for sponsors for the first time and opened up once-off-limits licensing deals with state lotteries and liquor labels.
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This is particularly true if one gives any thought to the shockingly low payout rates of lotteries and how they disproportionately prey on the wallets of the working poor.
Although it would take massive purchases and returns of unscratched tickets to make real money from cheating on lotteries, he cites evidence that there may be those who do it.
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