Word: flukes
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...chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has made in public and private that have blown large holes in the listing hulk of fellow Democrat Bill Clinton's economic package. Moynihan is not a conventional party leader. The Hill's loyal opposition has whispered that he is "chairman by fluke." Even Democrats were stunned when former committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen accepted the job as Secretary of the Treasury, which moved Moynihan to the mountaintop, an unproven leader. In fact, Moynihan is the Senate's most eccentric, brilliant and fearless purveyor of uncomfortable truth. He has probably shaped as much national social...
...festival, one excellent film is a fluke, two are a faint promise. Cannes '93 has showcased a dozen or so delights, including Mike Leigh's comic scorcher Naked, from Britain, and Alain Cavalier's potent French film Libera Me, a deadpan document, in wordless closeup, of political prisoners and their torturers in an unnamed country -- any country, alas. Wim Wenders' Faraway, So Close!, a sequel of sorts to his great Wings of Desire, is a monumentally quirky film essay that gradually, and satisfyingly, surrenders to the conventions of the thriller genre. The festival had two out-of-nowhere finds, both...
...wrong in stating that the tutors are crowding the students. There are two entries in Winthrop House which house more than one tutor. One of the entries is especially large and has traditionally had two tutors living in it. The other has two tutors this year through an administrative fluke, and will not have two tutors next years...
...SPILL COULD BE A FLUKE. TWO SPILLS, and suspicion rises. Three in a row looks like a dangerous trend. So in the wake of the disastrous trio of tanker accidents off the coasts of Spain, Scotland and Sumatra, E.C. ministers convened an emergency meeting in Brussels. The officials proposed policies to ensure that companies spilling oil pay for the damage, and also agreed on the need to declare environmentally sensitive areas off limits to tankers...
...services to the pre-recession pace of mid-1990. Strong increases were registered by consumer spending, business investment, orders for durable goods, sales of existing houses and consumer confidence, while new claims for unemployment compensation have been showing a consistent decline. Any one of these figures might be a fluke. But it seems unlikely that they would all flash misleading signals...