11.   But once the allotted amount of green cards is given out, the lottery is over.

12.   But the lottery has been a different, sadder story.

13.   But the lottery is real.

14.   But, he also said disdain that Gov. Lawton Chiles and many lawmakers have for the lottery is also a cause.

15.   Conservatives cannot effectively make the argument that the lottery is a regressive tax, a rip-off of the poor.

16.   Critics note that the Connecticut lottery is one of the most profitable in the nation and that the state would be reducing its revenue by selling part of it.

17.   Far from being a bad thing, lotteries are woefully under-exploited by politicians.

18.   For Kornas, the lottery is his only hope.

19.   For roughly half, the lottery is their chief problem.

20.   For as long as there have been state lotteries, spoilsports have denounced them.