11.   It has been his mission for more than a decade to show that casinos can be run cleanly.

12.   Robert De Niro is a former gambler who runs a casino and Sharon Stone is his none-too-respectable love.

13.   Sam, a mob-backed Chicago bookie who runs the casino at the Tangiers Hotel, catches sight of Ginger at the craps tables.

14.   Some investors say better bargains may be found in gambling companies that operate outside Las Vegas, particularly those that run riverboat casinos.

15.   That would allow Michigan tribes to run gambling casinos.

16.   The costs of running casinos have risen sharply and management at the companies has been stretched thin.

17.   The Senate hearings last week on why the Justice Department runs a casino in California got attention but did little to further the cause of good government.

18.   The situation is far grimmer at the nearby Elem Pomo Indian Colony, where two separate casinos are run by a tribe violently divided.

19.   This follows his expensive though unsuccessful fight questioning the legitimacy of the tribe that now runs Foxwoods casino in Connecticut.

20.   Until three years ago, Gerard Michael Brown, known to friends and colleagues as Mickey, had never imagined running a casino.