Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential vote was something of a fluke; if not for John Anderson's strong Independent showing, Massachusetts probably would have remained safely in the Democratic column...
Even Ayrault's tally was something of a fluke. A hard, but apparently innocent Frank RiCapito shot hit the crossbar squarely, and bounded out into no-man's land in front of the net. Ayrault picked up the ball on the first bounce and headed it into the lower left corner to give the Crimson a 1-0 advantage...
YALE 16, UCONN 6--Last week's Eli trouncing of Brown was no fluke. Carm Cozza annually puts an outstanding squad together, and this year it's a hungry bunch, still wounded by the humiliation inflicted by the Crimson. The Bulldogs won't lost many this year...
...special deduction to help trim the so-called marriage penalty, a decade-old fluke in the tax tables that requires husbands and wives who both work to pay higher taxes than two unmarried wage earners living together. The change could save couples hundreds of dollars...
...unexpected, though illusory, economic news last week: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices did not increase in July. That was the first month that the cost of living had not risen in more than 13 years. But experts quickly admitted that this was a statistical fluke. The cost of food, automobiles and medical care continued to soar, but that was offset by the 5.7% decline in mortgages. Thus the prices that most people pay most often are still rising...