One downside with the Antiques Roadshow style of investing, however, is that it requires a lot of luck.
Mr Knapp said its remarkable condition was not just down to pilot skill, but also a lot of luck.
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If Mr Allawi, with armed multinational help, can provide the former, the latter may, with a lot of luck, follow.
To put together a solo show, artists would have to have gallery representation, which required a lot of luck and connections.
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And I knew full well that it would take a lot of luck to get it done in the hours I projected.
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Without a bunch of second chances and a whole lot of luck, my life could have taken easily a turn for the worse.
Of course, this prominence owes quite a lot to luck: if any other Democrat had chosen to challenge Mr Gore, Mr Bradley would not be the sole repository of anti-Gore feeling.
As it happens, you could configure the Revolve with Windows 7 and you could buy an optional pen to go with it, but obviously, if you'd prefer to use your fingers, you'll have a lot more luck here than you would have with earlier models.
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Luckily for me (and regardless of what anyone else says, there is a lot of luck involved in angel investing), I have since had significant positive exits to companies like Kodak, CBS and Facebook, and the current value of my portfolio is approaching the 30% IRR that rational angels target.
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Over three decades DeGeorge had a lot more bad luck with insured objects.
Ms. Johnson, the tornado survivor who is now living with her daughter, laments that the city has had a lot of back luck this year with weather, including tremors from the Virginia earthquake that shook City Hall.
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.
Ideas only become reality with luck, and a lot of hard work.
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The Baltimore Orioles have improved, but their penchant for winning close games last year had baseball experts pegging a lot of their newfound success to luck, and predicting that a repeat performance is unlikely.
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Clumsy as its early days have been, the market may yet get a lot bigger and, with luck, better.
Raitt said when she's looking for the perfect tunes to record, she relies on a lot of research, hard work and luck.
Yes, you can learn a lot from Google and sites like Quora, but good luck getting an employer to agree this entitles you to more pay than some other non-MBA graduate applying for your position.
Before I ask my last questions of you in this room, good luck, and I hope you get to spend a lot of time with Ethan.
With luck, popularity will speak for itself and members will be generating a lot of useful material.
With luck, the Nordics will come up with a model that is a little less Scandinavian, but a lot more alluring.
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