But the tale, viewed another way, depends as little on luck as a casino does.
Whether recession is avoided will therefore depend heavily on luck and the wisdom of policymakers.
Instead, like gamblers down on luck at closing time they buy risky stocks hoping to recover all losses.
If you rely on luck, however, Chinese porcelain is a fairly good bet.
If you attribute your successful results on luck or ease of the test, your locus of control is external.
We can't rely on penalty shoot-outs and we can't rely on luck.
Up until 1982, Mr Laker had thrived on luck and opportunism.
The article focuses on luck as a factor of success: the authors found that hugely successful people (think Bill Gates) are no luckier than anyone else.
These are parents who don't have the means to move to a richer neighborhood with better public schools, so instead they have to rely on luck.
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Without exposure to entrepreneurship education, it is easy for young people to believe that this story applies to someone else or that entrepreneurship depends on luck.
This is not the case with proposals such as a lottery, which allocates based on luck, or a point system, which allocates based on quality and attributes of the immigrant.
This seems so basic, but hundreds of thousands of businesses start with no clear marketing funnel and then have to rely on luck or referrals to get customers in through the door.
Having luck on one side doesn't mean anything if you have no luck on the other side, so we'll go to Moscow now and see.
When that luck came their way, they disrupted their plans and they executed brilliantly to get the maximum return on that luck.
On a country road he picks up Pozzi (James Spader), a gambler down on his luck.
On the luck front, Mr Armstrong has suffered from a change of Wall Street fashion.
"I'd been down on my luck for quite some time, " he told Radio 4's The World This Weekend programme.
This has been a tremendous track record, partly based on sheer good luck, but also on more intangible effects.
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The image of an aristocratic family down on its luck, wearing threadbare jackets and scuffed shoes, comes to mind.
Monetary policymakers have to rely on good luck as well as sound judgment.
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All these men were "down on their luck" and yearning for "a better life, " Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said.
The forensic examination also relied on initial luck, or the thorough searching of the debris trail, stretching 100 miles east of Lockerbie.
But when Li came calling, the Ruias were down on their luck.
Another strategy: Gamble on a big star who's down on his luck.
What is more, Mr Romney is being disingenuous: not all the firms that foundered after Bain's involvement were simply down on their luck.
One day this past October, a New Yorker named Jeff Ragsdale, recently dumped and down on his luck, taped a flyer around Manhattan.
Down on his luck for the first time but not wanting to disappoint the vagabond, the businessman starves for days to afford it.
In a Spanish town where one in three people are without a job, getting one can depend quite literally on the luck of the draw.
Unemployment benefits are a safeguard for individuals down on their luck.
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On the theoretical level, Rand's ideas offer no real possibility of developing robust civil society responses to address the needs of those down on their luck.
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