Call it faith, karma, good juju or just plain luck, but we have all hoped for just a little help in these difficult times.

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Being born early can sometimes be the result of insufficient prenatal care, or just bad luck.

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Either that, or just pray that their luck continues to hold.

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The fact is the financial crisis and the recession were not the result of normal economic cycles or just a run of bad luck.

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Consistently giving great presentations has nothing to do with the mood of the audience, who spoke just before you, or luck.

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Whether it is just bad luck, a misreading of public opinion or being on vacation while a united Republican opposition is hard at work, voters have turned cold to Democratic Presidents and candidates in August.

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As bad luck or perverse planning would have it, the incident came just before a ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Day.

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