The front page of today's New York Times carries a dispatch from Wendover, Utah, that reports on the town's planned merger with West Wendover, a town across the border in Nevada. "Unlike Utah, where gaming is not permitted, Nevada has no state income or corporate taxes," the Times reports. Later, the article says, "Currently, West Wendover derives almost one-fifth of its $5 million budget from gaming, Mayor Melville said."
Both uses of "gaming" are violations of Times style. The newspaper's stylebook says, "gaming is a euphemism. Ordinarily use gambling instead, except in official names and direct quotations."
It's interesting, too, that the Wendover residents who hope their town will become part of Nevada seem to be undeterred by that front-page, Saturday, May 19, 2001, New York Times dispatch that claimed, "In Nevada, these experts say, a long legacy of low-tax, libertarian government, rural isolation and a steely tradition of self-reliance have combined with a population growth of more than 60 percent in the last decade that has left little sense of community to create huge challenges to the state's mental and physical health."