1.   Well-known casino and gambling interests have contributed regularly to the campaigns of the three senators.

2.   Because of intense competition for primacy in the region, gambling interests in Mississippi are privately gleeful over the situation in New Orleans.

3.   But for gambling interests, the possibility of defeat is bitter because Floridians appeared eager to embrace casinos.

4.   But in Florida, competing gambling interests fractured into four parties, each pushing a different agenda.

5.   City after city was revealed to have entrenched gambling interests linked to gangsters, aided and abetted by corrupt police and compromised politicians.

6.   Democrats hit the jackpot with California Indian gambling interests this year.

7.   Gambling interests have prevailed in the political struggle, said Tucker, who now believes Foster never intended to eradicate gaming in the state.

8.   Gambling interests opposed the requirement, and some of the riverboat casinos have defied the law by refusing to sail.

9.   Grace has other gambling interests in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, including casinos in St. Joseph and LaGrange, Mo.

10.   Gov. Parris Glendening, a Democrat, standing in the racetrack gate to bar slot machines, turned back a conservative candidate backed by gambling interests.