Had it not had that good fortune, it might have faced nastier options for its troubled energy-cables business.
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Perhaps in some future generation, when the fear of losing everything or the belief that bad things happen for no reason at all have all been relegated to the scrap heap of history, abundance will be the natural experience on Earth as people embrace their own perception that good fortune flows easily when trust rather than fear is the unwavering belief.
But they tend to discount the major role that simple good fortune and timing played in their prosperity.
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That is good fortune, for sure, but Kuroda this year has allowed line drives at a rate of just 14.5%, third-best among AL starters.
In Palantir, I saw everything that makes America special, and I also felt a deep sense that our good fortune imposes a responsibility to ourselves and the rest of the world.
Then you can worry about how to turn that pile of good fortune and hard work into action that is a hand up rather than a hand out.
The ICO said that it had only been "good fortune" that the records had been found by "someone sensible enough to call the police".
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Usually the rolls are cut into chunks, but these cannot be sliced because that would cut good fortune or so the marketers would have it.
My feeling is that Vick will also have a renewed appreciation for his talents and good fortune that allow him to play football on Sunday afternoons.
The apparent failure of the devices' main explosive charge means that only sheer good fortune, or the incompetence of the bombers, prevented further great loss of life.
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That its continued growth will expand the range of goods within our reach in concert with a more efficient deployment of capital makes plain that its continued good fortune will be economically stimulative too.
Arsenal were penned in for long periods as United played at the high tempo that suits them best, and it was only a mixture of the excellence of goalkeeper Manuel Almunia and good fortune that kept the deficit within manageable proportions.
Despite all that, despite all this good fortune and all this wealth, I have known for a very long time that the final destination is the goldfish bowl.
It is such good fortune that American capitalism can reward so many different talents and styles.
It was my good fortune that, this time, he chose to go outside.
He is as aware as anyone else in Westminster that some of his good fortune is down to the positive press he has received.
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It never is, when you consider the abundance of good fortune that any Tour contender no matter how fit or accomplished needs to ride into Paris as the leader.
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It was Bridge's good fortune that Carnegie had selected him to be the bearer of this missive, proof positive that he had managed his way back into Carnegie's good graces.
Understood or not, it was the world's good fortune that we were able to take on Saddam when we did: It was the right time, right place, right war.
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And it's my great good fortune that the technology has gotten so good that it's kept pace with my disease, if you will, so we've been able to manage it through the irst to step down.
Embraced by both parties, he is better equipped than Obama to make the case that Bush squandered the good fortune and budget surpluses of the nineteen-nineties and left the current President with multiple crises to clean up.
Mr Obama's good fortune is that it is not only progressives who find the deal unpalatable.
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The bad news is that the Arabs' recent good fortune is poorly shared.
It said it had only been "good fortune" that the records had been found by "someone sensible enough to call the police".
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Ch Supt Henry Irvine, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), said it was "only by good fortune" that nobody was killed or badly injured.
Admittedly, after a few minutes of this story I realized that Robert Redd had the good fortune to play a part in the dynamics of a family connection.
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Deputy traffic commissioner James Astle said the incident on 1 August 2012 had put the public at risk, and it was "but a matter of good fortune" that no one was seriously injured or killed.
"From a charitable standpoint, he always felt that if he was able to find organizations where there were good people with good ideas and the opportunity to get funds directly to those people, that was the best use of his good fortune, " said Mr. Levinson.
The message here is that they should not consume their good fortune, which can be fun and ego gratifying, but to save and invest to help fund the next fifty or sixty years of their lives.
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