Word: mec
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...FRANCISCO Boucheron's pink Mec ($8,750) became available just this month, but clients at the Post Street boutique have been clamoring for it since July...
...officer was sent to Tosteson MEC in Roxbury after the theft of a gray Dell Latitude laptop computer, valued...
...HUPD officer took a report at the Longwood substation of an individual periodically sleeping in the Tosteson Medical Education Center (MEC...
There is at least one outfit trying to reverse the sport's direction. Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC), a spin-off of Canadian auto-parts maker Magna International, has spent about $1 billion to buy 12 U.S. tracks over the past five years, including Pimlico and Bay Meadows. The company may also bid for the scandal-plagued New York Racing Association's tracks, which include Saratoga and Belmont Park. "I love horses, but I just got bored going to the racetrack," says Frank Stronach, Magna's chairman, who became one of the world's top breeders while he was making billions...
Stronach plans to convert each old track into a mini-Vegas with shopping, live entertainment and, most important, "racinos," or racetrack casinos, that fatten purses and improve race quality. But MEC has met an old problem--the hostile statehouse. Racinos are legal in just seven states, and other industries, like hotels, won't let lawmakers legislate slots at tracks at their expense. "Why save racing?" asks Robert Goodman, a professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and the author of The Luck Business. "The car companies are struggling--does that mean we should put slot machines in showrooms...