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Article: Casinos no jackpot for Atlantic City
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2008
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The ads were titled "Help Yourself, Help
Atlantic City, Help New Jersey," and they made a series of promises,
if only voters would pull the "yes" lever to legalize casino
gambling.Having casinos in Atlantic City would "balance taxes,
create jobs, boost the economy and cut down on street crime," the
advertisements assured.Thirty years after singer Steve Lawrence
tossed the first dice onto a green felt table to kick off legalized
gambling on Memorial Day 1978, there is no question that casinos
have transformed Atlantic City into a $5 billion-per-year
powerhouse.But while most of those promises were kept, many of the
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