Word: flukes
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Ironically, that injury may have been a turning point, taking pressure off and giving her room to perform to potential. At the Worlds in Budapest four weeks later, Friesinger won the all-around title. She proved it wasn't a fluke by setting a 1500-m world record at Calgary the following month, before capturing the world title at the same distance. Her explanation for success is simple: "I'm healthy ... so I've been training harder. I have also had more discipline - and not going out too much...
...free, there's a lot of competition to get in. Only children who score in the 98th or 99th percentile are considered. We duly sent our son, Rover (not his real name; we're not that mean), for the $150 test, figuring he might, on a very good day, fluke it. Turns out he was in the 40th percentile. According to the literature accompanying the results, this meant he was average...
Mike Hurewitz's death has prompted a lot of soul searching in the transplant community. Was it a tragic fluke or a sign that transplant surgery has reached some kind of ethical limit? The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City hospital where the complex double operation was performed, has put on hold its adult living-donor liver-transplant program, pending a review of Hurewitz's death. Mount Sinai has performed about 100 such operations in the past three years...
...British Airways and Air France are appalled at the statistic bandied about to show how dangerous the Concorde is: a "hull loss" rating (that is, of a completely totaled plane) of 11.64 per 1 million flights--compared with the average of 0.84 for the Boeing 737. A statistical fluke, they say, because there are so few Concordes, and they fly so rarely. Otherwise, they argue, the Concorde has an outstanding safety record...
...greatest importance were against Queens and the Bears. With the win against Brown, Harvard avenged a 10-8 loss in Providence the previous week. And with its near-win over Queens, the Crimson proved that its 10-8 upset over the Eastern powerhouse last week was not a fluke...