The case has cast an unwelcome spotlight on Steubenville, a small, down-on-its-luck town along the banks of the Ohio River.
In either case, neither banking nor securities regulators seem to have a handle on these companies, which typically offer lump sums to down-on-their-luck military veterans and other retirees who are willing to forgo payments in exchange for a discounted lump sum.
"How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" features a down-on-his-luck time machine repairman, living in Minor Universe 31.
Similarly, one of the U.K.'s most pre-eminent crime writers, whose Rebus character is a cynical, down-on-his-luck, semi-alcoholic detective, reveals a weakness for high-end Cartier watches.
Prosecutors said Beasley and Brogan used the job postings as bait in a robbery plot aimed at down-on-their-luck victims with few family ties that might highlight their disappearance.
If any member of Congress thinks there are no unemployed workers or no down-on-their-luck neighborhoods in their district that would benefit from the proposals in the jobs bill, then they better think again.
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If you're playing Phuket's Blue Canyon--good luck on number 14--the drop is worse than any devaluation ever was.
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He is well-known for buying shares in high-quality companies when they are temporarily down on their luck (Coca-Cola in the 1980s after the New Coke debacle and General Electric during the financial crisis in 2008).
Loaves and Fishes also serves down-on-their luck visitors to Biloxi's casinos.
They would later be replaced by successive waves of plucky immigrants ready to try their luck on the track -- from the Irish to Latin American riders today.
We can't rely on penalty shoot-outs and we can't rely on luck.
But Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin rode their luck as they ended on 212-5.
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The IMF and the financial markets would probably like to see a combination of all of these: long-term structural reforms to free up economies and put government spending on a more sustainable path, combined with some short-term relief on austerity and (with luck) easier monetary policy as well.
We eventually got to the Facebook Java app hidden inside the Applications folder -- apparently right-click on the D-pad should launch it but we had no luck with that.
But tackling the crisis head-on requires energy and luck, and many here lack both.
"I'm selling it through an agent but also trying my luck on the web, " the 32-year-old said.
Rangers had embarked on an epic European journey, playing 18 games to reach Manchester, but had ridden their luck on occasions by defending stoicly against technically-better opponents.
He might test a range of incentives on food servers to determine how best to motivate customer drink orders without driving the servers to be overly pushy, or evaluate which of several potential incentives might make first-time visitors down on their luck more likely to return.
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De Villiers was again reprieved by Harper on an lbw appeal shortly afterwards, but this time the ball was clearing over the stumps and there could be few complaints, although luck remained on the batsman's side - the ball spun on to his stumps but rebounded without dislodging the bails.
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Al-Merreikh , home-and-away losers to Sfaxien in the 2007 final, had better luck on the road this weekend as they struck twice during the second half to defeat Highlanders of Zimbabwe 2-0 in Harare.
"Good luck with your career that is based on self-promotion and self-aggrandizement, " the magazine's editor wrote in an e-mail.
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What if she remained adamant and it was Alabama or Notre Dame that lost out on the next Andrew Luck, Cam Newton or pre-sentenced OJ Simpson?
Niko Kranjcar tried his luck on the unpredictable surface with a speculative 25-yard effort and Aston Villa's Carson allowed the dipping drive to bounce in front of him and skid into the net.
Robson, who turned 16 on 21 January, said she would send a 'good luck' message to her Hopman Cup team-mate Andy Murray before the men's final on Sunday.
As we know, non-robotic women on board ship are bad luck.
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Hamilton had to survive late scares when Gibson's corner flashed across the face of goal and when Ford shot into Cerny's arms in the fourth minute of added-time but this week luck was on their side.
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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If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- I'll be out of luck.
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It was cruel luck on the Tigers, for whom Joe Westerman scored a hat-trick of tries and kicked five goals.
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