In English: biotech is far less lumpy than internet venture investing, far less dependent on the lottery ticket outlier.
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Jimmy Goreel, who runs the 7-Eleven where the winning lottery ticket was sold, offered similarly glowing comments about Khan.
The Hills bought their lottery ticket at a Trex Mart petrol station on the outskirts of Dearborn.
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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.
While shareholders have skin in the game, the executives have a lottery ticket.
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.
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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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.
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.
The state's lottery director said Thursday he hasn't seen the ticket, but he also says no one else has come forward saying he has it.
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.
Consider this stock a lottery ticket that pays off if the city doesn't go bankrupt.
Health Lottery chief executive Martin Hall said the game would ultimately pay out a greater proportion of income in prizes than the National Lottery does, with 57p on every ticket being returned in prizes.
Ticket sales for the 2012 Christmas Lottery, the proceeds of which was shared between the Association of Jersey Charities and the Association of Guernsey Charities, were also down across the islands - by 55, 500 (4.1%) in Jersey and 112, 200 (12.1%) in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
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Each cashed a ticket in the I Won The Derby lottery, but that's about it.
Terry Rich, CEO of the Iowa Lottery, initially confirmed that one Florida winning ticket had been sold.
Quezada announced on Monday that he held the winning ticket, but the final word from lottery officials didn't come until Tuesday.
As Deborah Jacobs wisely suggests in 10 Things To Do When You Win The Lottery, hire a tax pro before cashing your ticket.
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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.
The final Powerball ticket holder has come forward to claim one half of record jackpot hosted by the Arizona lottery.
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She tells lottery winners the first thing to do is safeguard the ticket and don't tell many people about the win.
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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.
Despite having foresworn gambling after making the haj pilgrimage to Mecca in 2010, Khan bought a lottery ticket in June.
The ticket came from New Jersey, and the state lottery will give more details on the 4th-largest Powerball jackpot at a news conference today.
Lottery will give details Monday on a winning ticket for the 4th-largest Powerball jackpot, which was sold somewhere in the state.
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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In California, some shops have been experiencing a ticket-buying frenzy, after lottery officials in the Golden State revealed which outlets have previously sold the most winning tickets.
Poor ticket sales have forced the cancellation of the Channel Islands Summer Lottery for 2013.
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