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Southern casinos lay off workers

Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001 | 10:01 a.m.

MGM MIRAGE'S Beau Rivage hotel-casino on the Mississippi Gulf Coast has laid off 340 workers, or 11 percent of its work force.

And Boyd Gaming Corp.'s Treasure Chest casino in Kenner, La., has laid off 80 of its 1,200 employees.

Both properties cited a slowdown in business since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

"We were seeing a slowdown, not so much on the weekends, but on the weekdays," said Rob Stillwell, a spokesman for Boyd Gaming. The riverboat is in suburban New Orleans.

"When the business cycle returns to normal, those will be the people we would want to call back," Stillwell said.

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