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...disappointing ratio of L’s to W’s comes as a bit of a surprise. Last year the team boasted 10 wins and claimed the Ivy League championship before heading on to NCAA’s. And that was no fluke: Harvard witnessed the same number of victories...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quaker Matchup Offers Chance To Start Anew | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...United’s buyout was not a fluke. A 2000 Rutgers study showed that worker-owned companies experienced average employment and sales growth that was 2.3 to 2.4 percent higher than non-worker-owned firms. In other words, these companies grow to be on average a third larger than traditionally owned firms over the course of 10 years...

Author: By Dylan R. Matthews | Title: Common Equity | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Your Cardinals made it to the Super Bowl after finishing the regular season with an 8-8 record. Some think it was a fluke, and most "experts" aren't predicting you'll make another run. Is this extra motivation? No. I've been here six years now. We've never been picked a favorite for anything. It kind of comes with the territory. We just have to go out there and prove people wrong once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NFL Star Larry Fitzgerald | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...likelihood it will happen again: “Nah, I think that was a fluke...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa | Title: New and Improved Brain Break®: Less New, Less Improved | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...really coming along,” coach Ray Leone said. “We’re further along than we were at the same time last year...I thought overall, there [were] a lot of good things.” Proving their lofty preseason ranking was no fluke, the Huskies jumped out to an early lead, netting two goals in a span of just over ten minutes. UConn’s first score of its home opener came at 5:23, when a Husky free kick attempt was passed off to an attacking teammate, senior Lauren Ebert, who took...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Outshot Crimson Falls to Huskies, 3-1 | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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