Word: flukes
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...going to change, they say. And it would be dangerous to try. "His challenge is to stay disciplined and stay on the track," said one adviser. "I don't see a shift in any way, shape or form. If you believe that this has not been a fluke from the start, and we do, then there should be no shift as you go to a bigger audience...
...didn't get all the credit. The 23-year-old was the beneficiary of the most famous slipup in Derby history: opponent Bill Shoemaker's misjudging the finish line and slowing prematurely. Yet Hartack--who rode 4,272 winners in 21,535 mounts--proved it was no fluke by becoming one of only two jockeys (the other was Eddie Arcaro) to win the Derby five times. Luck, he later said, had nothing to do with it: "I rode the right horses, and I rode them very well." He was 74 and apparently died of a heart attack...
...building a plant in Russia, a country flush with money from the skyrocketing price of oil. In 2003, Nissan sold 8,000 cars in Russia, a number that jumped to 24,000 in 2004, and to 50,000 in 2005. "We started thinking, if this isn't a fluke, we need to think about localization," says Dominique Thormann, Nissan's senior vice president for administration and finance in North America - both because of how expensive cars are to ship and because of the 25% tariff charged at the border...
...Though blind luck certainly groped its way into the GOP corner, this victory isn’t a fluke: The Republicans united behind a strong message and, quite simply, ran the best campaign...
...waited for the statistics to come in,” Petersen said. “We thought that it was just some fluke...