In a fair game--one in which you are appropriately compensated for your risk--you would either double your money or lose it all.
Men whose lives are filled with gifts and opportunity, men who have worked hard to achieve, risk it all and sometimes lose it all.
Mr. PHILIP LABU (Orange Crop Farmer, San Joaquin Valley, California): It's kind of a devastation I feel after working so hard, and then you just kind of, you know, lose it all in a couple of nights.
Now with security and huge improvements in speed we are back to mainframes, but in a much different level of technology with VPNs and so on for security as people put on data on sticks unencrypted and lose it all the time.
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If we lose this one, it is all over for the rule of law in this country.
"It's now very clear that the government's Work Programme is simply failing as job centre staff now lose all confidence in it and stop referring people to it, " he said.
In the meantime, creative minds like Kyttanen are looking forward to the time when you can, in fact, lose your luggage and print it all out at your destination, right to your specifications.
Right now, if Greece were to default on its debt and lose all external financing, it would be forced to immediately cut its non-interest spending from 43.9% of GDP to 39.0% of GDP.
"I didn't lose the championship in Abu Dhabi so that's not a problem at all, it wasn't mine to lose, " he says and dismisses the tag that he might be the nearly man of the sport.
Banda has said that Malawi would lose all-important donor support if it invited al-Bashir to the country.
Should the state lose the challenge, it will have to pay all the legal fees in the case.
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It is also because any transfer of power means that rulers instantly lose the entire prize, making them all the keener to keep hold of it.
He'll lose his job and savings and Shirley will have it all.
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The reason: If a college's federal student-loan default rate surpasses 25% for three consecutive years, or 40% in a single year, it could lose eligibility for federal student aid for all students, according to the Department of Education.
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Countries that have pegged their currencies to the euro, or are shadowing it, lose their independence in monetary policy without gaining all the benefits.
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This just comes from the amount of time it takes to lose one job and find another: all those HR tests and interviews and so on.
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When I added all of that muscle and then had to lose it, I don't think people were paying attention.
That way, you have quick and easy access to all your accounts if you lose your wallet or it gets stolen.
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"When I first got into it, I was trying to lose the typical weight that all women put on in college, " Moore said.
When we lose trust in the system that governs us, it cascades through all of our decision-making, negatively impacting our desire and ability to take risks and grow our companies.
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Mr. Roll can't figure out whether he and other residents would immediately lose their Medicare coverage, or whether it would go away at all, if the court invalidates the law.
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It meant 750, 000 more households would not now lose all their child benefit.
It means that anyone still watching analogue TV will lose access to all of their channels at 23:30 BST.
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