YEAR'S BIGGEST JACKPOT FIRES UP LOTTO PLAYERS.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer A $37 million Lotto jackpot stoked stoked adj. Slang 1. Exhilarated or excited. 2. Being or feeling high or intoxicated, especially from a drug. dreams of riches Tuesday across Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and the state, as ticket sales for today's drawing outpaced sales for the most recent prize of the same amount, officials said. ``This is the highest jackpot of this year,'' said California Lottery spokeswoman Cathy Doyle Johnston. Lotto took in $70,000 more in sales between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday, as compared with the same period in July when the jackpot hit $37 million. It meant hard work for Surinder Kumar, manager of the 7-Eleven store on Sherman Way in Canoga Park. ``A lot of people are buying 60 or 80 at a time,'' said Kumar. Some of the people buying tickets in bulk are first-time customers, said Kumar, who is bracing bracing, n a resistance to the horizontal components of masticatory force. for an even bigger run on tickets today. ``They go crazy! People go crazy to buy tickets!'' he said. A single winner of tonight's drawing would receive roughly half of the $37 million jackpot after taxes, Johnston said. A person opting to take payments over 26 years would get a first year, pretax pre·tax adj. Existing before tax deductions: pretax income. pretax adj [profit] → vor (Abzug der) Steuern payout pay·out n. 1. The act or an instance of paying out. 2. A percentage of corporate earnings that is paid as dividends to shareholders. of $925,000 and a final, pretax payout of $1.35 million, she said. |
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