But for Hitler, Churchill's career might have tanked the same way.
Investment in the sector tanked in late 2008, as did share prices (see chart 2).
The recession caused less unemployment than elsewhere, but real wages fell instead as productivity tanked.
At the prospect of an end to free money, funds were pulled from emerging countries that have benefited from a decade of easy inflows, and currencies and stockmarkets tanked.
Chinese divisions of the Big Four have audited several Chinese firms that listed abroad and then tanked.
After Japan decided in 1997 to take advantage of an incipient recovery to raise consumption taxes in the hope of cutting its huge budget deficit, the economy tanked again and the deficit rose.Yes, but Germany is different, say advocates of fiscal rectitude.
Tyco's shares tanked after the departure of Mr Kozlowski; previously shareholders had hoped that his dismissal might buck the firm up.See article: Tyco's troublesEl Paso, an American gas company, saw its shares fall by 25% after the apparent suicide of Charles Dana Rice, the firm's treasurer, intensifying doubts about the company's finances.
Guayaquil's Barcelona SC is still Ecuador's most popular club, but it has tanked after overspending on foreign stars in the 1990s.
Minnesota-based Macalester College, once also one of America's wealthiest, learned the value of not putting all its golden eggs in one basket when shares in Reader's Digest, then 60% of its endowment, tanked in 1997.
No longer: as the economy tanked following the country's breakup, Russian football tumbled in tandem.Russia's oil boom has put the economy back on a firmer footing, but few of those riches have found their way into local sport.
Recently he faced losses to the tune of $500m after a short-seller alleged that a company Mr Paulson invested in, Sino-Forest, didn't have the timber stocks it claimed: its shares tanked before the Toronto stock exchange, on which it was listed, suspended trading in it.
