61.   The technique known as intervention has long been accepted as a way for desperate loved ones to help a compulsive gambler or alcoholic who otherwise rejects aid.

62.   The Web sites are available to anyone with a credit card and a computer, making them especially enticing for compulsive gamblers, they said.

63.   They pander to compulsive gamblers, some of them elderly people living on fixed incomes, investigators say, and their operators have links to organized crime.

64.   Whatever their ages, compulsive gamblers are no less addicted than alcoholics, gambling experts say, but they often go undetected until the late stages of their illness.

65.   Will he act to protect compulsive gamblers from a life of crime?

66.   Wynn and his wife, who also grew up in a family headed by a compulsive gambler, took over the bingo business.

67.   Youths are more likely to be compulsive gamblers than adults and persons with lower incomes more likely than those with higher incomes.

68.   A compulsive gambler, Fluke had said he wanted to spare his wife and daughters the embarrassment of what he viewed as his impending financial doom.

69.   A compulsive gambler who murdered his nagging mother, a serial car thief and two others have been executed in southern China immediately following public sentencing rallies.

70.   Alcoholics can avoid bars, but compulsive gamblers have a hard time avoiding lottery advertisements, news stories and talk around the office water cooler.