Of course, these are the Mets, so bad fortune is always lurking around the corner.
Was it a fear that bad fortune could put him in that position?
It balances a private ledger of good fortune and bad fortune.
On the other hand, Roddick had the bad fortune of playing in an era with Federer, who is the greatest grass court player of all time.
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In other words, to get from here to recession in America, and thence to global slump, is likely to require not just bad fortune but also bad judgment.
It may be helped by a bit of bad fortune for Merck: Zocor goes off patent in 2006, and it may lose some share if the company stops promoting it aggressively.
But despite some bad fortune in terms of timing, both with respect to superior contemporaries and a freakish composition of compatriots from an earlier era, Andy Roddick made the most of the hand that was dealt him.
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He foolishly squanders the family fortune on a bad investment.
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He knew bankruptcy was a bad thing from watching "Wheel of Fortune".
The bad news is that the Arabs' recent good fortune is poorly shared.
Each of those activities is an important step along the way to fame and fortune for an author, and the bad news today is that traditional publishers now only consistently do one of those five activities: acquire books.
Sure, bad bounces happen and, occasionally, the winds of fortune may swing in your favor, but the primary driver of consistent success is practice.
It's been a bad year for people who relied on shares to make their fortune, or even to deliver a respectable return on their investments.
Not too bad for a man who was raised in poverty and made his fortune with his two fists.
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By the time I went to sleep last night, Colin Barr at Fortune, among others, had called it a bad idea.
Global recession has been especially harsh to media heir and onetime richest Australian as fortune more than halved amid collapsing casino industry, rumored angst and plain bad luck.
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