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  // Author - Brenden West; updated 3-18-03

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DD_Lottery.sPubDate = "12/17/2004 6:59:28 PM GMT";
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DD_Lottery.sTitle = "Daily Diversion: Lovin' the lottery";
DD_Lottery.appDeck = "<font size=3 color=#000000><b>Lovin' the lottery</b></font><p>Total lottery ticket sales have skyrocketed in the past two decades. Between 1980 and 2003, sales increased by about $41.1 billion, according to the Census Bureau.";
DD_Lottery.appFooter = "1 - Player scratches a latex section on ticket which reveals instantly whether ticket is a winner. <br>2- Players choose and bet on three or four, depending on game, digits with various payoffs for different straight order or mixed combination bets. <br>3 - Players typically select six digits out of a large field of numbers. Varying prizes are offered for matching three through six numbers drawn by lottery. <br>4 - Includes break-open tickets, spiel, keno, video lottery and passive before 1990. etc.<br>5 - Sales minus prizes and expenses equal net government income.<br>Source: Census Bureau";
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DD_Lottery.rows[i++] = new Array("<b>Total ticket sales","<b>$2.4 billion","<b>$20.0 billion","<b>$37.2 billion","<b>$43.5 billion");
DD_Lottery.rows[i++] = new Array("Instant<sup>1</sup>","$527 million","$5.2 billion","$15.5 billion","$20.4 billion");
DD_Lottery.rows[i++] = new Array("Three-digit<sup>2</sup>","$1.5 billion","$4.6 billion","$5.3 billion","$5.4 billion");
DD_Lottery.rows[i++] = new Array("Four-digit<sup>2</sup>","$55 million","$1.3 billion","$2.7 billion","$3.1 billion");
DD_Lottery.rows[i++] = new Array("Lotto<sup>3</sup>","$52 million","$8.6 billion","$9.2 billion","$9.7 billion");
DD_Lottery.rows[i++] = new Array("Other<sup>4</sup>","$206 million","$376 million","$4.5 billion","$5.0 billion");
DD_Lottery.rows[i++] = new Array("State proceeds (net income)<sup>5</sup>","$978 million","$7.7 billion","$11.4 billion","$14.0 billion");

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