1.   ABC officials are banking on viewers being drawn in even though the teams are relative unknowns.

2.   City officials were banking on some of the money coming from naming rights to Candlestick Park.

3.   Colonial officials are banking on their varied pedigree as a host site of championship golf events to keep them free of disappointment.

4.   Russian officials are banking on the International Monetary Fund to help them through the current plight.

5.   U.S. team officials were banking on Jared Palmer and Richey Reneberg.

6.   Corrections officials are banking on the theory that inmates who get time for intense soul searching might be able to come to terms with their troubled lives and change.

7.   Republican party officials are banking on the fact that the publicity surrounding th campaign will breathe new life into the Dole campaign.