Sentences with phrase «hit the jackpot in»

The «King of Las Vegas» first hit the jackpot in 1995 when he was 61 and running Computer Dealers» Exhibition (COMDEX), one of the largest trade shows in Las Vegas.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office has hit the jackpot in asset forfeitures — with holdings of roughly $ 734 million as of June 30, according to the Independent Budget Office.

I've been on the hunt for a simple black skirt, and I hit the jackpot in this one.

And we think Drake hit the jackpot in finding such a perfect forever home.

The High Court and the Court of Appeal threw out her bid for compensation made after Hoare hit the jackpot in 2004 because her civil suit was outside the limitation period.

Fact of the matter is Henderson residents hit the jackpot in The Silver State.

I think you hit the jackpot in the neighbor department!

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Disney bought social game maker Playdom in 2010 for about $ 563 million and last year hit the mobile jackpot with the children's game Where's My Water?

A few failed startups later, he and business partner Omar Tayeb hit the jackpot with one in the nascent field of augmented reality.

I call this an AdWords Jackpot because it reminds me of hitting a row of lucky 7s in Vegas — I just hit a Big Data Solutions jJackpot because it reminds me of hitting a row of lucky 7s in Vegas — I just hit a Big Data Solutions jackpotjackpot!

The company owns 30 % stake in Alibaba, hitting the jackpot with its early investment in Jack Ma's vision.

Tatts took a $ 137.8 million revenue hit from only having 31 major jackpots of $ 15 million or more in 2017 compared with 45 in the previous year.

Tatts derived 66 per cent of its pre-tax earnings from its lotteries division in 2017, though a lack of jackpots hit the company's overall result.

According to Pew Research Center, only a third are working for a «good wage» of $ 45,000 a year, which sounds like hitting the jackpot for some college grads but has been cut in half since 1990.

I hit the local food jackpot with the CSA and farmer's market in addition to the ground beef!

Wow, I feel like I hit the jackpot — all these great recipes in one place!

I knew I hit the jackpot when my self - described zucchini - hating son (M) sat in front of a plate of these baked zucchini fries and plowed through half of them in one sitting.

But little did they know they would hit the jackpot, becoming the first café in the chain's U.S. system to break the $ 1 million mark in annual revenues.

I was having a problem for awhile with stores being inconsistent with carrying Halo Top, but I hit the jackpot and recently found a store near me in Carlsbad that had a nicely stocked Halo Top shelf.

Quite often they hit the jackpot: Newman had a NASCAR - high 23 top five starts in» 03.

It's readily apparent that this year's winners — Chauncey Needham, who hit a $ 136,800 jackpot in the calcutta, and Mike Souchak, who shot a 7 - under - par 281 to win the tournament itself, $ 10,000 in prize money and a gift of around $ 12,000 from Needham's calcutta share — bested some pretty rough competition.

So if a lower league team hit a jackpot and they are drawn against a top premier league side away they make more money from that away game than their entire season (or in some cases several season).

In 2003 the Nuggets hit the jackpot when they drafted Carmelo Anthony with the with the third pick in the NBA drafIn 2003 the Nuggets hit the jackpot when they drafted Carmelo Anthony with the with the third pick in the NBA drafin the NBA draft.

Indeed, Hughes really hits the jackpot by getting Jürgen Klopp and Gary Neville to talk openly about Liverpool and Salford City respectively — there are some real big hitters in here.

After checking out Target and Kohl's, both of which have a few business separates options but are better suited for casual wear, we hit the jackpot at Destination Maternity in Natick.

In that case, you have hit the toilet - training jackpot as we will guide you to a diaper - free toddler in no timIn that case, you have hit the toilet - training jackpot as we will guide you to a diaper - free toddler in no timin no time!

When you hit your jackpot of deeply supportive birth resource in your area, you'll find that these women know a lot about each other and how the others work.

If you can find the children's librarian, then you have really hit the jackpot, because they are the ones in charge of selecting the children's books and other media.

Brooklyn state Sen. Martin Dilan revealed in his 2016 financial disclosure that he hit a lottery jackpot.

While some retirees could hit the jackpot, the chances are higher that they would hit rock - bottom if the market struggles as it has since the Great Recession started in 2007.

«Taxpayers in Suffolk County are hitting the jackpot of mandate relief as a result of this proposal.»

In December 2015, the Southern Tier hit the jackpot.

Carmen Arroyo has said her jackpot hit in 2012 came from a single $ 20 bill played on the penny slots at Saratoga Casino and Raceway.

And in March 2016, when Harvard licensed compounds that Shair's lab had developed to Merck for an initial payment of $ 20 million, with the potential of additional payments as the compounds progress and royalties if a resulting drug eventually comes to market, the inventors stood to hit the financial jackpot.

«Speculation is that Shell has learned a lot and may be poised to hit the jackpot this time,» says environmental chemist Jeffrey Short of JWS Consulting in Juneau, Alaska.

Martian Summer by Andrew Kessler (Pegasus) Kessler hit the astronomy jackpot when he was allowed in the control room of the Phoenix lander, the Mars probe that struck water ice.

Layoffs are always a possibility in industrial science, but the flip side is that companies offer substantially higher salaries than those available at universities or the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-- and, in some instances, stock options that can pay off big if a venture hits the jackpot.

«When we looked for the bacteria in the fireworm, we hit the jackpot,» says microbiologist Eugene Rosenberg.

Dr Barton, Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology at the University of Leicester, described the find as «hitting the jackpot»: «Our discovery is totally unexpected and very exciting.

EXPLORING a gorge in south - east France in 1994 for prehistoric artefacts, Jean - Marie Chauvet hit the jackpot.

Researchers hit the jackpot this year in understanding how light resets the circadian clock, our internal timepiece that regulates daily patterns of behavior and physiology.

Here's some good news for the New Year: According to new research by Washington University in St. Louis and Cornell University, there's a 1 in 9 chance that a typical American will hit the jackpot and join the wealthiest 1 percent for at least one year in her or his working life.

Hitting the jackpot is one thing, but if you hit the jackpot four times in a row you might wonder if the odds were somehow stacked in your favor.

Those who are looking for something out of the ordinary run of entertainment in St. Louis have hit the jackpot this weekend.

-- Cassini's electronic «nose» hit the jackpot, finding many surprises as it sniffed the gases in the previously unexplored space between the planet and the rings.

Overall, their mental health improvements over the four years were comparable to those seen in British lottery winners two years after hitting a medium - size jackpot worth up to about $ 250,000.

Some people hit the genetic jackpot, while some just don't have it in their genes.

I capitalized all that because this LC hocus pocus always reminds me of my grandmother who always told us about the jackpot she hit on the slots (we grew up in NV), but never about how much she feeds them over time.

Also, I thought that I had hit the jackpot today when I found some gluten free wraps, but they had pea fibre in them, so are these low or high?

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