Sentences with phrase «lost small fortunes»
He learned hardball tactics from GOP strategist Roger Stone, fought eBay, lost small fortunes, and fled with a parrot to a tugboat off the Florida coast after getting death threats.
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He had hunted Soviet subs in the Baltic Sea, lost a small fortune in the 2000 stock market crash, racked up a series of awards for young investigators, and authored numerous papers in top journals.
The investigation leads him to Le Chiffre (Mikkelsen, King Arthur), a notorious banker funding the terror operations, who has lost a small fortune due to Bond's meddling, but plans to make it back in a poker tournament.
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The dot com bubble dealt with a smaller distribution of actors, and those actors were sophisticated and able to tolerate risk — for example, if Bill Gates lost half his fortune in pets.com he was still sitting pretty.
I'm so at a lost with trying to eat this way, it's costing me a small fortune.
You could say to yourself ok we lost, but it hasn't cost me a small fortune and had a good laugh with your mates and perhaps next week we will do better.
He made a small fortune in the northern California gold fields, then lost it in a shipwreck off Florida, and was drawn back to Kansas in 1854 by his memories of the beautiful prairie and dreams of founding a business along the busy covered wagon trail he had seen five years before.
Why would you spend a small fortune to have a renter burn the place down and lose everything?
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Accidents generally cost auto insurance companies a small fortune in medical treatment costs, lost wages, automobile repairs, property damage and much more.
Following Bitcoin's drop below the $ 10,000 mark on Wednesday, each of the Winklevoss brothers lost a projected $ 443 million, leaving them with about $ 739 million each — no small fortune to be sure, but enough to remove them from the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.