"Video slot machines are the future, " admits Charles Mathewson, chairman and chief executive of IGT, whose company got rich off of old-fashioned reel slots.

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The council's vice-chairman, Dr Hew Mathewson, said he gave "no credence" to links between the khat trade and the funding of al-Shabaab, the Somali-based cell of al-Qaeda.

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Although he did not die in battle, the greatest pitcher of his generation, Christy Mathewson, developed tuberculosis after being gassed as part of a training exercise in WWI.

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He said Holyrood could put a levy on the water used in the distilling process, a suggestion backed by another former economic advisor to the government, Sir George Mathewson.

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Burt and Mathewson served on the Audit Committee until December 2009, and Mr. Satre served on the Audit Committee on an interim basis from December 2009 until January 2010.

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Since the inaugural class of Ruth (95.1%), Cobb (98.2%), Mathewson (90.7%), Johnson (83.6%) and Wagner (95.1%) of 1936, only 39 men have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

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Sir Peter Burt, the Bank of Scotland boss who engineered its merger with the Halifax Building Society in 2001, and Sir George Mathewson, a former chief executive and chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, are now campaigning to persuade shareholders to oust HBOS's current top management and install them instead.

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