At the start, in other words, Mr Clinton was lucky over timing: the recovery began too late for Mr Bush.
Mr Serra is lucky to have a second chance, for his campaign has until recently been hapless.
Lucky Mr Mullin was credited for 22 years of service, entitling him to a much larger pension.
Mr Root was lucky to get in at the start of animal cinematography.
Her supporters also hope she can claim some of the credit if Mr Wahid gets lucky and turns things around.
Mr Mitarai was lucky enough to inherit a firm with this kind of leadership, in a sector with high barriers to entry.
Compared with Estonians brought up in Estonia, Mr Ilves was lucky: his parents managed to flee, first to Sweden, where he was born in 1953, then on to the United States, where he grew up.
Mr Madelin will be lucky to get 5% of the vote in round one.
Mr Putin has been lucky to enjoy an oil boom that filled up state coffers and fanned economic growth.
One step forward and unless the beefy Mr Yushchenko proves exceptionally lucky one step back.
How lucky for Mr Obama that the super-rich Mr Romney made his fortune in the cut-throat business of private equity.
If the Tories are right, and there are lots of fraudulent claimants to be scared off unemployment rolls by workfare, Mr Blair might get lucky.
James Welch, legal director of the human rights organisation Liberty, said that Mr Raissi was "lucky" to be arrested before the new laws came into effect.
He told the BBC's World Today programme that Mr Jonathan was doubly lucky as his other given name is equally propitious - Ebele, which means God's wish.
But then there was Cupid, which relied on the Idol format to help one lucky lady find Mr. Right.
"I think it's fair to say that we were very lucky, " Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference Saturday.
Mr Mitchell should count himself lucky not to be greeted with an incomprehensible string of numbers - the pager-speak of American teenagers.
"We were lucky, " Mr. Schwartz said of his success.
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Mr. McClure said it is lucky to get one or two ideas out of the incubation phase.
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Five years later Mr Saumarez Smith decamped to the Royal Academy of Arts and Mr Penny was second-time lucky.
Mr Farr says he was "lucky" to receive his kidney after a year because the average waiting time for a kidney transplant is double that.
By keeping budgets low and targeting the big cities where his movies are likely to find their widest audience, Mr Loehr has so far struck lucky.
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Truth to tell, though, it is respect for symbolism and recent history rather than belief in lucky charms that makes Mr Scharping hang on to that chestnut.
In fact, Two Hands exports to the U.S. are up by 20% over last year, said Mr. Twelftree, who was lucky enough to have signed a 20-year distribution deal with Chicago-based behemoth Terlato Brands in 2005.
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Since taking over in 2004, Mr Marchionne has been both effective and lucky.
But I thought that more readers should be aware that despite initial appearances, Mr. Iffrig was one of the lucky ones.
How did the diminutive and unprepossessing Mr Kucinich (60) get so lucky?
Mr Traykov, who always plays the lucky dip, said he will not be moving away from Ilford, where he first came to live in 1995.
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