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Gambling with debt

By Steven Syre

 |  Globe Columnist  

  February 21, 2012

Caesars Entertainment Corp. and partner Suffolk Downs want to be the team that brings casino gambling to eastern Massachusetts. Caesars brings lots of gambling expertise and business scale to any negotiation. But Caesars is also stuck with billions of dollars of debt that make it difficult for the company to earn any profit on its global casino operations. The giant of the casino business

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