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When the casinos finally came, they caught both the city and the state completely unprepared. Then Governor Brendan Byrne was so intent on keeping casinos out of the hands of organized crime that much of his energy went into developing a body of law and a bureaucracy that would do the job. As a result, the two regulatory agencies that enforce the formidable Casino Control Act spend $59 million annually to police twelve casinos, in contrast to $15.7 million for 285 casinos in Nevada. The two agencies can, in the words of Carl Zeitz, a former member of the casino...
...secretary of the NCAA football committee, Dave Nelson of the University of Delaware, notes that the intent of the rule change is to bring an end to the near-automatic nature of placements and make coaches think twice about going for field goals or extra points. Nelson hopes the rule change will convince more coaches to go for first downs on fourth down inside the opponents' 30-yard line and also to go for more two-point conversions...
...Meyer insists that there is nothing wrong with the intent of the third point in its original form, even if it is unworkable...
Walsh, for his part, has barraged the local media with letters that are often as intent on levelling blasts at rivals in the council race as in defending his actions...
Walsh, for his part, has barraged the local media with letters that are often as intent on levelling blasts at rivals in the council race as in defending his actions...