Too many in the region wake up with few expectations other than making it through the day, and perhaps the hope that their luck will change."

VOA: special.2011.05.21

And you wake up in the morning and you see them and would rather chew your arm off than wake them up -- like a coyote in a trap.

CNN: Piper Perabo

And for the people involved in them, flops are something more than a wake-up call: They can even rescue a career.

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For most market participants, if this thought occurred to them in a dream, it would be more than enough to cause them to wake up in cold sweats.

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