Consider this stock a lottery ticket that pays off if the city doesn't go bankrupt.
While shareholders have skin in the game, the executives have a lottery ticket.
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.
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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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 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.
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.
Yesterday three hedge fund managers in Greenwich split a winning lottery ticket worth about a quarter of a billion dollars.
Still, as Lula pointed out, what looks like a winning lottery ticket can all too easily become a curse.
They see natural gas as a winning lottery ticket that foreign interests are trying to steal.
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.
But if you could buy that lottery ticket for a few pennies, it would make sense.
The Hills bought their lottery ticket at a Trex Mart petrol station on the outskirts of Dearborn.
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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.
Khan bought his winning instant lottery ticket in June at a convenience store near his home.
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.
Lottery will give details Monday on a winning ticket for the 4th-largest Powerball jackpot, which was sold somewhere in the state.
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.
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.
Each cashed a ticket in the I Won The Derby lottery, but that's about it.
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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The winner -- a single ticket holder -- has chosen to remain anonymous, state lottery director Dennis Wilson said.
Florida Lottery officials said Sunday that the winning ticket was bought at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, about 30 miles northeast of Tampa.
Khan, who owned several dry cleaning stores, was named the lottery winner and presented with a giant cheque days after purchasing the winning ticket.
Pick n Pay also has a thriving ticket resale service, a travel comparison site and lets customers play the lottery online.
Camelot, which runs the National Lottery under licence, is allowed to make a 0.5% profit on each ticket sold.
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