Lottery sales cause strain on area retailers in Texas
Welch assures distributors the lottery shortage will be fixed as stores report ticket shortages and delays. Busby’s Bowling Lanes and Western Drug sold out quickly with repeated restock delays. Store managers fault ordering lines and phone access while 7-Eleven touts predicting demand and a third of outlets in Ector County.
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BYOB Water Store Faces Lottery Ticket Reorder Woes
Kathy Nelson of BYOB Water Store on East University Boulevard laments failed attempts to reorder lottery tickets Thursday as phone lines stay busy. She can order in Abilene, while a Lubbock counterpart reports steady shipments. Nelson calls the Comptroller's Office numbers a joke, noting 16,000 people trying to call.
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Four arrested for forging lottery tickets in Houston
Four people including Patsy Beuader Joseph Mouton Teresa Mouton and Alicia Rubens were charged with forgery after attempting to cash a doctored $10 000 lottery ticket at the Texas Lottery office in Houston. The scheme used glued 10 000 squares to simulate three matching numbers and was foiled by bar code verification.
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Bush Campaign Struggles With Message And Leadership
Republicans worry the president lacks a clear message and strong beliefs as polls show Bush trailing Perot in key states. Analysts urge a campaign overhaul, blaming White House staff and advisers, while conservatives demand a steadier stance and decisive leadership to reverse the decline.
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Global warming treaty signs eyed by sixteen nations
Senator Lautenberg leads hopes for a Friday signing with sixteen countries set to sign the climate accord while the biodiversity treaty faces a separate push. Canada but not the United States appears ready to sign both, as internal memo leaks and White House denials widen the dispute.
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Budget Shifts Push Allies To Share Defense Burden
The plan proposes reducing U.S. troops overseas with two options. One cuts Europe total from 235700 to 100000, the other enforces a 40 percent global cut from 350000. It also allows abortions overseas for personnel and dependents at cost and creates a $1 billion conversion package for education and job programs. The House rejected deeper SDI cuts 211-161 and an amendment to set the SDI budget at 1.2 billion.
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Leno tops Carson in first-week Tonight Show ratings
Jay Leno's debut as host of The Tonight Show posted a 6.6 average rating, 22 percent above Johnny Carson's final season average of 5.4. Each rating point equals 921,000 households. Leno's week also reached 53 percent higher than the same period the prior year for the week ending May 27, 1991.
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