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Article: Casinos' diversity efforts improving, panelists say.(Discussion)
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- Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2006
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Byline: Howard Stutz
Oct. 13--If there was a diversity-related figure that jumped out at the audience attending Thursday morning's joint breakfast meeting for members of the Latin, Urban and Asian chambers of commerce, it came from the session's last-minute substitute speaker.
MGM Grand President Gamal Aziz, pinch-hitting for an absent MGM Mirage Chairman Terry Lanni, said the company's diversity program has expanded its influence in the past five years from just making sure that minority-owned businesses are given an opportunity to bid on construction and development projects to actual percentage gains.
Aziz, who oversees the 5,000-room Strip ...