And who knew that Hideki Matsui eats fried pork before games for good luck?
He carries a penny that the publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader gave him for good luck.
And the Grand Concourse resembles the spacious Parisian thoroughfare it was modeled after, with a few bodegas thrown in for good luck.
The special tradition "Mamemaki" involves throwing beans, specifically roasted soya beans at a member of the family or out of the door for good luck.
The mother and daughter giggled and rubbed their bellies as if for good luck, thinking about Sydney's niece -- Yost's daughter -- who will be called Bobbi Ann.
With hard times in mind, she put a dancing shoe in the window along with a CD of gospel music for good luck and to tell onlookers something about herself.
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The son of a vaudeville performer, he pioneered "eatertainment": showcasing knife-juggling chefs and opening new restaurants with a flourish of Japanese drummers, priests and a barrel of sake broken for good luck.
According to the CBO, under the most likely assumptions (and a lot of hoping for good luck along the way), the national debt will approach one hundred percent of GDP within ten years.
In the old days (before the 1950s), a real log was doused with brandy and thrown on to the hearth, where its flames were scrutinised as a harbinger of the next year's harvest and its ashes preserved for good luck.
The machine does not allow modifications to its ROM (because it has an O in the middle), but the team was able to use a technique called return-oriented programming to modify how the machine executes existing code, taking the bits they want and, ultimately, devising a way to re-program its behavior by simply inserting a cartridge into a slot -- presumably after blowing on it for good luck.
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Good policy has counted for more than good luck.
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And I want to thank you both for joining us and good luck to all the folks who applied for this.
"Congratulations ... good luck for the rest of the season, " Nadal told Djokovic at the ceremony.
The latest ruling by the special immigration appeals commission ends a long run of good luck for Mrs May.
She will need extraordinarily good luck for either path to prove profitable.
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Her desperation turned out to be stroke of good luck for us.
Home to the University of Nevada, which places more emphasis on science than on basketball, and situated a mere 45 minutes by car from lovely Lake Tahoe (the same by plane from San Francisco), affordable Reno is well positioned for a run of good luck.
Johnson's father used to ask people to light a candle for him as a good-luck charm.
So George Clooney doesn't get credit for his directing nod for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Mrs Middleton, whose friends call her Kay, had one final good luck message for the royal couple before the big day.
Thanks for bringing this up and good luck to Mr. Farrell.
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And we think you will too, especially if you're using this in a hotel room and have no other options, save for your smartphone (and good luck relying on that as an alternative).
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They all sent us good luck messages for the competition before we left Wales on Monday and have now given their surnames to our groups for the in-house activities we hope will provide some relief from the rigours of training and playing.
In another ritual, couples jump over a bonfire, hands locked, for cleansing the soul and more good luck in life.
The former Manchester United star had a run of very good luck and upon retiring for the night Best and his young lady decided a champagne night-cap was in order.
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