But unlikely things do occur by chance sometimes--that's how people get struck by lightning or win the lottery.

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But if we go launch and get struck by lightening or have some other problem, that will be very memorable.

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Mr. Brown said his client only fled because he heard a gun shot and didn't want to get struck by a bullet.

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Livedoor managed to get several of Fuji's attempted defence manoeuvres struck down by the courts before Fuji's white knight came along.

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But as an author who occasionally sells books, I was most struck by a new technique that Amazon is using to get people to buy.

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The biggest stories will be shaped, over months and years, by this new landscape of brand and startup collisions: the deals that get struck, the light-bulbs that go off, and the relationships that form at SXSW but last far beyond it.

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Driven by a desire to get bigger in the exploding options market, rival Nasdaq in 2007 struck deals to buy the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange and Stockholm-based OMX (this last deal is being done with Borse Dubai).

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When I was asked in 1988 by Science to write about economics fiscal relativity problem I was struck that the hard scientists could get this point so quickly and that so many economists could not.

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