1.   If that request is denied, the judge said, Manning can take his case to the state courts.

2.   One was a slander suit by a former assistant district attorney who worked on the Casablanca case before Manning took it over.

3.   Manning had taken a gamble and called the elections a year early, hoping to regain seats lost in by-elections and defections.

4.   Manning had taken a gamble and called the elections more a year early, hoping to regain seats lost in by-elections and defections.

5.   While Manning took a double-barrelled approach to his rivals, the Liberals zeroed in on Tory Leader Jean Charest, their main opponent for federalist votes in Quebec.