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.
It feels like winning the lottery, but a lottery you worked for.
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.
All too often, these bright and ambitious recruits see work as something to avoid or as a necessary evil to endure prior to winning the lottery, landing a spot on a reality television show, or getting a cushy, high-paying job with a corner office and an expense account.
LaHaye said a handful of athletes are invited to take part in the event each year, but their inclusion doesn't reduce the number of slots for those who get in by doing well in qualifying events, or by winning a spot through the Ironman lottery.
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Chicago businessman Urooj Khan jumped for joy when he learned he had the winning numbers for a million-dollar lottery drawing last summer.
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Khan bought his winning instant lottery ticket in June at a convenience store near his home.
Charlotte is a half-game behind for the league's worst record, and staying there gives Michael Jordan's team a 25 percent chance of winning the lottery and the right to draft someone like Kentucky's Nerlens Noel.
There was a time when becoming the dean of a major business school was like winning the lottery.
After winning the lottery my father was treated like a sage.
Past studies typically measured people's appetite for risk by asking them to make choices in a laboratory setting between receiving a set amount of cash and playing a lottery with varying odds of winning different amounts of money.
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.
They have since been told that there is more chance of winning the lottery than two carriers meeting and having a child with the condition.
"The chance to return now would be a matter of good luck, like winning the lottery, but I think there is no way we would be allowed to go back, " he said.
Lottery will give details Monday on a winning ticket for the 4th-largest Powerball jackpot, which was sold somewhere in the state.
Your odds of starting a successful business have to be better than winning the lottery, but the investment is perceived to be riskier.
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.
The chances of a seed sprouting into a worthwhile plant are the same as those of winning the lottery, says Mr. Klug of Pink House Blooms.
In other words: landing a reservation is the equivalent of winning the food-lovers' lottery.
Florida Lottery officials said Sunday that the winning ticket was bought at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, about 30 miles northeast of Tampa.
After a series of fortunate events just after college that he compares to winning the lottery, Treanor found himself in charge of the only brewpub in Galway, creating his own recipes to release on tap.
Khan, who owned several dry cleaning stores, was named the lottery winner and presented with a giant cheque days after purchasing the winning ticket.
He had to send an Ontario lottery official a batch of unscratched cards in two stacks, one winning one losing, before getting a suddenly speedy rise out of him.
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