These are really financial bets on whether some asset will gain or lose value.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

The population keeps moving around, so after each head count some states gain and others lose members in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

Now he worries they will lose everything. "You know,in two years I could recap some of the money.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04