Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these efforts, the band can be expected to come under sharp scrutiny by fans and critics, eager to see if the group's acclaimed debut album and touring success were more than a fluke...
...grand old Austrian avalanche Franz Klammer tried unsuccessfully to get the race canceled. There Johnson became the first American to win a World Cup downhill. After the race, the popular and easygoing Klammer called Johnson "a little Nasenbohrer"-nose picker-who had sneaked into first place by a fluke. At Sarajevo, while Johnson skied superb training runs during the week of delays caused by weather, Klammer fell and pulled a groin muscle. Johnson began calling him a nose picker...
HOLY CROSS 31, BROWN 17--The Crusaders are the only undefeated team in the ECAC. It isn't a fluke...
What happened? Some economists suspect a statistical fluke. Says Lester Thurow of M.I.T.: "The drop is too big to be believable." Labor Department statisticians who prepared the report, however, think that if there was an error, it consisted of counting in July some reductions in unemployment that actually occurred in June-which would mean that the drop was less abrupt than it appears, but nonetheless real...
That Elliott would come to defend his world view against Harvard liberals still seems like something of a fluke. He applied to only one other school--tiny Hillsdale College in northeast Indiana, an institution popular in conservative circles for its free market philosophy and refusal to accept federal financial support. But Harvard Basketball Coach Frank McLaughlin happens to be a long-time family friend and convinced the dubious Bremenite to submit an application here. "I knew nothing about Harvard except that it was THE great school," says Elliott, who at a stocky 5ft. 10-in. showed no promise...