Wipeout

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Wipeout

A significant loss on an investment. For example, a wipeout occurs if one buys a stock at $100 per share and the price later drops to $4. An investment is unlikely to recover from a wipeout.

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Facility manager at Shrewsbury Sports Village, Rhys Collins, said: "We're really looking forward to Wipeout Arena arriving at Swallows.

Bounce down for inflatable games

By altering the soundscape of "Wipeout," everyone can enjoy the game in the most immersive way possible.

'Wipeout Omega Collection' 5GB Patch: What's New?

There are certainly no complaints with the content on offer here, mainly because it is a compilation of all the best bits of the Wipeout series.

Wipepout is a winner; WIPEOUT: OMEGA COLLECTION PS4 ....

Skip to the end: The way WipEout was always meant to be played.

GAME; WIPEOUT: THE OMEGA COLLECTION PS4

The September spectacular promoted on Facebook boasts a "series of challenges like you may have seen on Total Wipeout", the BBC hit television show.

Warning: 'Total Wipeout Tour' could be a scam; FEARS THAT PUBLICITY FOR BIRMINGHAM EVENT, FOR WHICH 2,000 HAVE SIGNED UP, MAY BE 'DATA-MINING' EXERCISE

The page in question says it will allow attendees to take part in a "series of challenges like you may have seen on Total Wipeout", the hit television show.

Facebook users warned Total Wipeout challenge in Liverpool could be a scam; 11,000 people have registered their interest in attending obstacle course event in Liverpool

The key difference with Wipeout, though, is they're laughing AT the competitors, not with them.

Wild about 'em

It comes amid mounting pressure on Mr Clegg to stand down as leader after the disastrous elections, which saw the Lib Dems lose hundreds of councillors in the local elections and suer a wipeout of all-but-one of its 11 MEPs, as it slipped to sixth behind the Greens nationally.

Veteran Lib Dem AM rebukes reeling Clegg

Winter Wipeout (BBC1, 6.25pm) On January 3, 2009, Richard Hammond hosted Total Wipeout, the UK version of an American show which looked like something from a live action, platform-based computer game.

PICK OF THE DAY

The buzz seems to suggest as much even as the superstar gets set to host the Indian version of Wipeout , which airs from the end of January 2011.

Shah Rukh set to be the highest paid celebrity on TV

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE)'s Liverpool Studio and Sony's Evolution Studios in Runcorn have created some of the biggestselling PlayStation games of recent years, including WipEout and Motor-Stor m.

Sony invests in training at 'global centre of excellence'

THE Irish Bookmakers' Association, faced with what it claims could be a "wipeout" of high street betting shops, has made sports minister Martin Cullen aware of a proposal it believes has the potential to create more than 4,000 new jobs.

Bookmakers put forward licensing plan to avert crisis

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