Word: luck
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...believe they're having any positive effect. At the same time, the U.N. arms inspection team is no longer on the ground, which means that nobody quite knows what Saddam?s scientists may be cooking up. The Iraqi dictator seems increasingly cocky. In December he tried his luck at cranking up the oil price, and although that failed, he clearly feels he?s going to break out of the sanctions grip on his own terms...
...luck would have it, Newby launched the market's first genomics fund (symbol: GENEX) in March, only a few weeks before the NASDAQ--led by high-flying Celera--got hammered...
Edith Wharton wrote subtly withering novels of privileged folks whose moral myopia appalled her; she screamed in whispers. Lily is an affront to social order--the order of financial and emotional comfort. Her luck turns to ashes when she rejects love (Stoltz) for a betrothal that promises security. She must be reduced to poverty by an upper class tired of her coquetry and unaware of her special heroism in refusing to destroy a rival (Linney...
...That's great news for the world's earpiece manufacturers - but not so great for the rest of us, who are apparently doomed to share the streets with a growing number people ranting into invisible cell phones about their stock portfolios and children's play dates. With any luck the growing movement to ban cell phone use in cars will be extended to such street behavior...
...pressing his case. All around him, Democrats were growing resigned; even close aides "just want it to be over," said one, and their verbs began to shift to the past tense. One reason his speechwriter had not drafted a concession speech was his own superstition that it was bad luck: write it, and he'll have to give it. True believers were increasingly isolated. "It's a small, closeted group," cracked one at midweek. "We meet in the basement, do our rituals and sing songs...