That is what "Luck" is really about.
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Ever since, your correspondent has kept a copy of this clever Linux distribution ( gOS 3.1 Gadgets is the latest version) on one of his office machines to remind him of what, with luck, the future could look like.
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Ever since that time, the Bush team has insisted that what happened was more good luck than hard work, that the party came to him.
In fact, what happened at that election was neither luck nor happenstance.
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Moreover, unlike Mr Gingrich, he has the benefit of knowing what happened after Mr Gingrich pushed his luck and led his party over a cliff.
That caused the folks who had been using high, probably inflated, vacation type homes, think timesharing, as loss generators for reductions of taxes owed were suddenly out of luck and had to move what turned out to be billions and billions invested in these tax shelters out of those and into other productive investments.
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The Asian punters' urge to throw what is left of their money to lady luck is just one of the unpredictable consequences of the region's financial crisis.
This leads to the question: What percentage of investors have enough skill (or luck) to select actively managed equity funds that beat the comparable index funds?
It also provides an opportunity for claimants to figure out whether the company's financial trouble was the result of bad luck or bad management, and to decide what should be done.
Nextel and T-Mobile are the cell carriers planning to lease space, so you're pretty much out of luck if you use anyone else, but what we're really interested in is the part about how ClearLinx Network Corp.
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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Luck made a sensational one-handed catch early in what turned out to be a blowout victory against UCLA. Nice.
You also advocate the privatisation of Social Security, while paying little or no attention to what happens to people whose investments, through bad choices or bad luck, don't prosper.
Or, to put it another way, what really killed the dinosaurs was a string of the most atrocious bad luck.
Still, you figure that he's pushing his luck if he expects to do for an insular ethnic group what he did for history's most profitable fish.
"It's going to take a very special team to beat St Helens but, with a bit of luck and a decent run in to it, who knows what can happen, " said Radford.
After Edinburgh, she spent some time in London, calling to say how wonderful and necessary it was for her to experience what was happening in theatre there and, I gathered, trying her luck in auditions.
The Cardinals look as if they have eight players on the floor, what with all the arms waving and bodies smothering whoever has the bad luck to have the ball, and when one guy sits down, there's one just as physical right there to take his place.
What all persistence studies show is that active manager performance is mainly due to luck, not investment skill.
And the seller, Jerry Dodge, was a hard-luck ne'er-do-well with a criminal record and what his friends and family describe as limited intellect and diminishing prospects.
With some luck she will use the next two years to restore her energy and prepare for what lies ahead.
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?
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