Nice, but here's the grim arithmetic of roller-coaster returns: If you lose 50%, you can't make it back by gaining 50%.
The latest information emerged Wednesday, a day of roller-coaster emotions in the city where three were killed and more than 175 injured Monday.
SeaWorld Entertainment has filed to go public, two years after Blackstone, a private equity firm, bought the business of roller coasters and killer whales.
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After a year of roller-coaster election coverage, the slow fiscal cliff negotiations are as exciting and unsatisfying as the Pro Bowl is after the Super Bowl.
Google is the acknowledged champion: its offices are blessed with volleyball courts, bicycle paths, a yellow brick road, a model dinosaur, regular games of roller hockey and several professional masseuses.
Any new government will need to address U.S. ties in the wake of roller-coaster relations between the two countries in recent years ahead of ahead of 2014 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which depends on the use of land routes through Pakistan.
Another example of the roller coaster ride provided by central banks can be found in the price of oil.
It's just one of the roller coaster rides I've been on throughout my life.
Its sole was high and thick, with the swooping shape of a roller coaster.
In the fall of 2011, Frazer's teammates voted her co-captain of the roller derby team.
And from the top of the roller coaster, it's a long, scary ride back to Earth.
The last couple of weeks have been nothing short of a roller coaster ride for the food and beverage giant PepsiCo.
But according to the Rule of the Roller Coaster, the only ones who get hurt are those who jump off in the middle.
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Those of us on the roller coaster of modern parenting are the first to attest to the fact that perfection simply does not exist, especially when you're bleary-eyed and sleep-deprived at 4:15 a.m.
The slow, atmospheric ascent to the top of the roller coaster as scientist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and colleagues (they include Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Idris Elba and Charlize Theron) explore the mysterious planet LV-223.
See images of the High Roller and other observation wheels around the world here.
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Pick a sport with low equipment costs like soccer or basketball instead of football or roller hockey.
For the Stranger timepiece, Ulysse Nardin actually redesigned the roller of the traditional music box into a disc.
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While most of us enjoy roller coasters in amusement parks, we find them unsettling in the financial markets.
After months of speculation and roller coaster oil prices, the IRS finally announced an increase in the optional standard mileage rates.
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Somehow, the Cuban cigar industry has to find a modus vivendi between modern quality control and the craft of the hand roller.
Squash will be battling it out with the likes of softball, roller sports and wakeboarding to gain admission, representing the last chance for David to fulfill her golden dream.
But the ebbs and flows of international commerce cannot entirely account for the roller coaster ride of oil.
It gives too much weight to ancient history from 2005, not enough to the roller coaster of 2008.
The economic roller coaster of the past 3 years has created an unusual problem for many companies: Too much cash.
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It's like submitting to the rack, only while standing on balance pillows and squeezing a foam roller instead of strapped to a frame.
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Analysts believe that the need for another round of quantitative easing would significantly unsettle markets and have investors facing another roller-coaster ride of volatility.
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The Kickstarter campaign has been a roller coaster of a ride and one which has given us more feedback than we could ever have possibly imagined.
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First and foremost: the sickening roller coaster of technology investing.
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