The California Lottery has selected the San Francisco office of Foote, Cone & Belding to handle its account, with billings estimated at $125 million for a five-year contract.
The Spurs lucked out in the draft lottery and selected Duncan; two years later, with Duncan playing beside the Hall of Fame center David Robinson, they won the N.B.A. championship for the first time.
Students who, by lottery, were selected to visit the museum on a field trip demonstrated stronger critical thinking skills, displayed higher levels of social tolerance, exhibited greater historical empathy and developed a taste for art museums and cultural institutions.
The Blazers won the 2007 NBA draft lottery and selected Ohio State center Greg Oden with the No. 1 pick in the draft.
The Pittsburgh Penguins won the lottery, and selected Sidney Crosby, a highly prized prospect whose arrival to the NHL had been greatly anticipated.
Last year, the Cavaliers won the lottery and selected Anthony Bennett with the number one overall pick, even though the consensus pick on everybody's board was Kentucky big man Nerlens Noel.
Durant was the first of three consecutive lottery picks selected by the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder organization, and all three — Durant (now with the Golden State Warriors), Russell Westbrook and James Harden (who's now with the Houston Rockets) — became superstars.
[World Business, Section W.] Medicare Lottery Is Announced The Bush administration said it would conduct a lottery to select 50,000 people who will receive Medicare coverage of prescription drugs in the next 18 months, before drug coverage becomes available to all Medicare beneficiaries in 2006.
At least, if there are relevant standards of merit that could be applied to the applicants and that would predict successful job performance, a lottery to select who gets the job would not qualify as selection according to merit.
