Word: luck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close out the first period with a one-goal edge. On the third Princeton score, Dave Heubeck nabbed the first of just two assists for the afternoon. Ordinarily the lanky Tiger attackman plays a bigger role, but after a second assist early in the second quarter Heubeck realized his luck had run out when he saw Haywood Miller waiting patiently to handcuff him the rest...
...such luck. The Islanders, playing at home and up 3-0 in their NHL quarterfinal series against Boston, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as the Bruins pulled out a come-from-behind 4-3 overtime...
Dressed in Afghan clothes and with an eleven-day growth of beard covering his $8 million face, he looked a little like a young extra in a Dannon yogurt commercial. But with pluck, luck and a crew of four, Dan Rather risked not only his life but the ulcers of CBS executives to bring back some of the first detailed film accounts of the fighting between Afghan rebels and Soviet soldiers for a 27-minute segment of 60 Minutes. Rather's whispered report from a darkened mountain ledge sounded like a cross between one of Edward R. Murrow...
Such charges are extreme and often unfounded. For the most part, the inequality of wealth under the free enterprise system is the unavoidable price that must be paid for genius, hard work or plain luck. The equality of results demanded by many leftist reformers would stultify society; complete equality can only be enforced by dictatorship. Income-leveling experiments in Britain and Scandinavia have proved that an economy without reward for success produces social entropy. There is little incentive for anyone to do more than the minimum necessary to maintain his own standard of living. Argued Winston Churchill: "The inherent vice...
...With any luck, the Crimson should come alive against Lockenmeyer, who depends on overpowering his opposition. So far this year, most of the Harvard hitters have been having trouble with "junk" pitchers, so they should hit the Princeton ace hard...