Consider this stock a lottery ticket that pays off if the city doesn't go bankrupt.
They see natural gas as a winning lottery ticket that foreign interests are trying to steal.
But if you could buy that lottery ticket for a few pennies, it would make sense.
Khan bought his winning instant lottery ticket in June at a convenience store near his home.
The Hills bought their lottery ticket at a Trex Mart petrol station on the outskirts of Dearborn.
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In English: biotech is far less lumpy than internet venture investing, far less dependent on the lottery ticket outlier.
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While shareholders have skin in the game, the executives have a lottery ticket.
Jimmy Goreel, who runs the 7-Eleven where the winning lottery ticket was sold, offered similarly glowing comments about Khan.
Still, as Lula pointed out, what looks like a winning lottery ticket can all too easily become a curse.
Yesterday three hedge fund managers in Greenwich split a winning lottery ticket worth about a quarter of a billion dollars.
Despite having foresworn gambling after making the haj pilgrimage to Mecca in 2010, Khan bought a lottery ticket in June.
The first case (Chamberlain) was optimism supported by wishful thinking, as useful as buying a lottery ticket to fend off bankruptcy.
In the three months since the policy reversal, only Illinois has managed to get its online lottery ticket operations up and running.
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And in Hong Kong the view seems to be that buying stock in a high-tech start-up is akin to purchasing a lottery ticket.
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Investors are encouraged to pick their lottery ticket number wisely.
Shareholders in target companies may not get as much cash or stock in the transaction as they would like, but they do get the equivalent of a lottery ticket.
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It should be noted that if a winning lottery ticket is shared by more than one person Form 5754 needs to be filled out to show how the winnings are divided.
It was kind of like a lottery ticket, with a long time until the ticket would be drawn, and at the worst some remainder value on my ticket if I lost.
But that leads you to the basic economic fact of all lottery ticket purchases: What people buy when they play the lottery is not really a chance at winning millions at all.
Of course, the world doesn't need more bad business ideas, and leaving a secure job to start a business is like "buying a lottery ticket" says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who studies startup failures.
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Not long after Chi-na's two stock exchanges opened in Shanghai and Shenzhen in the early part of the decade, would-be investors queued for hours just for the chance to buy a lottery ticket that would give a few lucky winners the opportunity to buy stock -- though no choice as to which company or at what price.
Berkman was able to cobble together the tickets into something resembling the four passes he'd received after the annual Masters ticket lottery in August.
We have played them in double-headers before with 50, 000 people watching so, whichever way it will be, it will be tough, but I'm just pleased we have a ticket in the lottery at the moment.
Florida Lottery officials said Sunday that the winning ticket was bought at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, about 30 miles northeast of Tampa.
He said ticket sales for the National Lottery would fall and charities generally would get less money if Mr Desmond's new lottery competed with it.
Khan, who owned several dry cleaning stores, was named as the lottery winner and presented with a giant cheque in an Illinois lottery ceremony days after purchasing his winning ticket.
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