Word: luck
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Freshman forward Mina Pell, who had come agonizingly close to scoring against Dartmouth and Yale in earlier action, had much better luck against the Lions...
...selection, however, could very well signify that the Crimson's luck is about to change, and a reversal of fortune could not come soon enough. Against Columbia on Saturday, as has been the case in so many of the team's defeats this year, a couple unlucky bounces was all that separated the Crimson from victory...
...will be well trained and whip smart. Be he won't be Welch. Few CEOs have had any luck running conglomerates in the past decade, and no one else running an industrial behemoth like GE will get the Welch premium. It will erode, and the stock will lose some magic. On top of that, Welch's successor faces the daunting challenge of converting Honeywell's slower-growing businesses into the kind that expand 20% a year, as GE does...
Take, for example, Al Gore's nonsense about how he will "keep the prosperity going." This is akin to the airline passenger's illusion that by gripping the armrests tightly, he is keeping the 747 aloft. No. The Clinton-Gore administration had the luck to be born at the takeoff of an immense technological revolution. The idea that Clinton-Gore created the fruits and abundance thereof is magic thinking of a childish kind. It seems especially silly considering the billions and billions in All-Daddy, big-state promises that Gore has made - the chicken in every pot, the government...
...going to be tough because [the Northeast] is just a solid region," Moore said. "But we were ranked No. 1 [regionally] not more than a week ago, so it would be real tough luck if we didn't get in. I think we deserve it, and I think that the committee will recognize that...