If this was horse racing, I would have made a killing on the Superfecta.
Lincoln luxury brand made a killing during the 1990s selling super-sized Navigator sport utility vehicles.
Before the subprime mortgage market collapsed, some top executives of mortgage and finance companies made a killing.
That greenhorn VC who took the deal after I'd punted made a killing for her firm--half a billion?
Of those mentioned above, according to Box Office Mojo, Twilight and Skyfall made a killing last weekend.
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"She made a killing at the time with all these contracts, " he laughs.
Special Offer: Gary Shilling called the housing crash in 2006 and his readers have made a killing in bonds.
Say you've made a killing on a real estate holding and want to roll over your profits into another one.
Sony and Phillips likewise made a killing by inventing the compact disc.
Most of the rest is held by FTV Capital, a venture capital outfit that made a killing when Invesco bought ETF vendor PowerShares.
Hedge fund manager Deepak Narula of Metacapital, for example, made a killing in RMBS last year, returning nearly 40% for his investors.
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Meanwhile Amazon.com, through its Amazon Web Services products, has made a killing on assuming those kinds of technical headaches on behalf of paying developers.
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Taking the advice of "Roof" Lumry, Perry and Hooper made a killing on early hit Infospace.com, which links content to wireless devices and Web sites.
Because of these three facts, the financial services industry, insurance companies and broker dealers have made a killing at the expense of American workers.
Swift says that European brands like Azimut and Sunseeker have "made a killing" in China as the country's elite discovers the pleasures of messing about on boats.
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Harbinger made a killing last year betting against subprime-related securities.
Likewise, investors who bet against the dot.com stocks in early 2001 made a killing as the dot.com bubble burst Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), for instance, is trading near 80 percent below its 2000 peak.
He has already made a killing from a big investment in Orange, a British mobile operator that was bought by Mannesmann before the German firm itself became the target of Britain's Vodafone AirTouch.
Bankers made a killing on the housing market in the 2000s and then left working people holding the bill when the market crashed, with taxpayer-funded bank bailouts and budget cuts to public services.
But regulators do not know whether those who have incurred debts are the same people who have made a killing in the stockmarket and hence how vulnerable banks' personal lending is to a stockmarket collapse.
The result was a property bubble, in which the government made a killing both from the inflated prices paid at auctions for development rights and on duties imposed on the subsequent sale and resale of homes.
NATO's spokesman, to speak of terror on a scale not seen since the Khmers Rouges made Cambodia a killing field in the 1970s.
However, our correspondent says that reports of Ms Hussain being shot twice in the head raise suspicions that it was a targeted killing made to look like a robbery.
You made a living, but not a killing, and everybody was seemingly happier.
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An important differentiator between al Qaeda in Iraq and al-Nusra is one of its tactics: Zarqawi made a practice of indiscriminately killing Iraqi civilians, effectively terrorizing the Iraqi population, especially the Shiite minority.
The money to be made from killing elephants for a living is also tempting for many people in the region, where population growth is rapid and poverty rates are high.
Investigators have been unable to establish why a mayday call was made from a helicopter before it crashed in Lancashire, killing two people.
Mr Waititu has since apologised for his remarks made in reaction to the killing of a street child - allegedly by a Maasai security guard - for stealing a chicken in Nairobi's Kayole suburb.
PolyMedix, a company that is developing drugs made by a proprietary computational drug design system to mimic natural germ-killing proteins found in humans.
Last year, a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet-100 slammed into a volcano during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people on board.
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