You could double a stake or wipe it out in the space of a few days.
Normally, a gut play should return you a multiple of your investment or wipe it out.
Despite the credit rating, investors fear that punitive-damage awards could cripple the industry, or even wipe it out.
The measure is part of their Wipe It Out campaign against environmental crime.
GDP, until it gets so small that some government in the future a long way in the future can wipe it out altogether.
These people believe in the Technological Singularity theory: The possibility that technologically augmented intelligence will change human life as we know it or possibly wipe it out completely.
"We've worked out what it would cost - not just to reduce the amount of paper we're producing every day but to wipe it out, " says Caroline Kimbell, head of licensing at the National Archives, the official archive of the UK government.
It can wipe out a species in a given watershed (see: Atlantic salmon).
Republican opponents of the public option contend it would wipe out private competitors, amounting to a government takeover of health care.
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As Frank Gaffney, President of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, explained in his 2006 book War Footing, by destroying a country's electrical power systems, an EMP will destroy its economy since it will wipe out its banking system.
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It would wipe out the deficit.
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But if a second wave of outbreaks emerges and this time crashes hard into the U.S., it could wipe out our fragile economy and severely squeeze a public health system already struggling to cope with threats of biological and chemical terror.
Bats only have one young a year, and they don't have them every year, so if they were using your roof loft as their maternity roost and you knocked down the building or put in a loft extension, it would wipe out that whole population.
Unfortunately, while it was a noble effort, and the plan did effectively wipe out the uninsured population, it did nothing to control the cost of health care.
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It may even wipe out parts of the insurance industry and thus leave consumers worse off.
This is a biggie because if you make this mistake, it can really wipe you out financially.
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The deadly chalara fungus is creeping its way across Britain and is threatening to wipe out ash trees it infects.
Has it -- is it able to wipe out 8 million jobs lost as a consequence of the recession which we inherited?
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But it will also wipe out some traders and reduce the net worth of individual investors who have piled into the commodities bubble.
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We can see that regardless of why our own mate left, there was nothing about it that should wipe out our self-esteem and there wasn't necessarily anything we could have done that would have saved our relationship.
Even if, contrary to Mr Putin's assurances, the plan is indeed to wipe out Yukos, it seems unlikely to happen quickly despite warnings on Friday by Viktor Gerashchenko, the former central-bank chief who recently became the firm's chairman, that it might have to cut production within days.
It will also effectively wipe out the cost of living allowance save for potential increases once every five years.
Glaringly absent from the press conference was any mention of how many (or how few) airplane flights it would take to wipe out all the carbon dioxide savings achieved in the energy-efficient new terminal.
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Now consider the fact that all it would take to wipe out these emissions would be the introduction of a small photovoltaic device to replace each charger - one which is flexible, durable, cheap to produce and, crucially, works in ambient (indoor) light.
The lack of any central computer server makes it all but impossible to wipe out illegal copies.
The Arabs rejected it thinking that they would wipe out the Jewish community and get the entire land.
When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it did more than just wipe out Wall Street giants like Lehman Brothers.
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