More importantly perhaps, it counts Nassim Taleb, who popularized this notion with his best-selling book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable as a member of its research team.
And we believe that anyone with a solid plan and a willingness to work hard can turn even the most improbable idea into a successful business.
So I jumped at the opportunity to hear how this extraordinary woman navigated her improbable career from a difficult and poverty-tinged childhood in the Bronx, to a Justice on the highest court in the United States.
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The Bulls were trailing 109-95 in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter when Robinson went on one of his tears, carrying his team to an improbable victory with a stretch that reminded the streaky point guard of a video game.
Though he didn't gussy up his music, he knew how to keep people engrossed all the same: A master of stride and boogie and bebop, he'd string his listeners along just by dancing around the theme, and then at just the right moment, he'd lower the boom, delivering a line so dazzlingly improbable that the common response was a gasp.
But, if a relaxation of the celibacy rule seems improbable, the chances of a female priesthood appear all but impossible, both because it is a matter of doctrine, and because of much more widespread opposition among the faithful.
Yet it doesn't go far enough for us to feel much of anything as Algren goes through all sorts of hell on a mission most improbable, first as Katsumoto's captive (he learns to speak Japanese in a matter of months), and later as his acolyte, ad hoc strategist and joyous -- except not joyous enough -- companion in arms, if need be to the death.
But in 2007, the improbable trio stumbled upon a solution that had been eluding medical professionals for years.
This is the story of a very improbable friendship with very improbable consequences.
The Celtics are two victories from NBA history, and from extending the Knicks' postseason futility in a most improbable manner.
The Boston Celtics are two victories from NBA history, and from extending the Knicks' postseason futility in a most improbable manner.
Still, there they were, the New York Yankees infield high-fiving and smiling with glee after having turned a most improbable triple play.
It may have seemed an improbable experiment in such a poor, ethnically divided and hierarchical society, but it has proved resilient and deep-rooted.
It is true that a spontaneous occurrence of the multiple system failures necessary to cause a severe accident and large radiological release is typically a very improbable event.
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All the same, the juxtaposition of brutality and improbable chivalry, in a dystopia built on the foundations of "Blade Runner, " "Brazil" and even "Naked City, " is a vision that's hard to dismiss.
Mr. VALDES: If they have that agenda, and some of them declare that, we think it is a very improbable possibility, particularly because most of the leaders of the party of Aristide and those whose--who participated in the government with him are candidates for the next election.
Hopes of a sensational, though hugely improbable England win, were raised when Katich tiredly nicked a catch to Strauss in the slips.
Fears of a German invasion of New York were improbable, if not utterly fantastic, but in a pre-nuclear weapon, pre-smart weapon age, the size of a navy really mattered.
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Its improbable success comes from plugging a gap its big Aussie rivals had left largely unattended: the subluxury category.
There are good reasons to think it may be, if not improbable, then at least a good deal more difficult for others.
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The transformation made Bastianich a kind of improbable fitness inspiration.
On the surface, such a glitch seems improbable.
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Certainly it wasn't easy, and didn't happen without a handful of improbable occurrences and some help along the way (thanks Baylor and Stanford.) As talented as Alabama is, Notre Dame has been at least as fortunate.
The Kings lost to the New Jersey Devils 3 to 1 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday, in a game that could have clinched L.A's improbable run to its first ever Stanley Cup Championship.
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This was the first time Pitino and Mike Krzyzewski had met in the regional finals since that 1992 classic that ended with Christian Laettner's improbable buzzer-beater, a game now considered one of the best in NCAA tournament history.
The opposite of Frankenstein, the myth I wish we saw more of, is the Pinocchio myth, which is about a puppet that wants to become human, an improbable technology that wants to make life better, if only with a sweet, gentle wish upon a star.
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But the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has never had a problem with highly improbable events.
Each has had an improbable vision that she turned into a game-changing reality, channeling something indescribable to do it.
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They have achieved the improbable feat of disarming tribesmen in a society where guns are considered indispensable emblems of manhood.
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