Thousands of people began queuing on Wednesday, in a last-ditch attempt to secure a ticket for the Olympics.

星期三有上千人开始排队，为获得奥运会门票做最后的尝试。

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Cornell University Labor Economist Sharon Poczter said they were once a ticket to a secure middle class salary.

康奈尔大学劳动经济学家夏农·柏克特表示他们曾经能够确保中产阶级收入。

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Of course, the world doesn't need more bad business ideas, and leaving a secure job to start a business is like "buying a lottery ticket" says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who studies startup failures.

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But the Russians survived a missed penalty from Denis Kolodin and the late sending-off of Andrei Arshavin to secure their ticket to the Alps.

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