1.   Even so, a lottery could make people more cheerful about paying.

2.   Just as lotteries can make addicts of their players, critics charge, so can they hook the state governments on the money they generate.

3.   The lottery makes it difficult for an e-trader to obtain a piece of more than a handful of good IPOs in a year.

4.   The lottery also made a big winner out of Barnes, one of the few Texans to hit it big regardless of what numbers came up.