Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Talk about bad luck!" says Caltech geologist Brian Wernicke, squinting through a telescopic eyepiece at an aerial photo of Landers, California, a small town in the middle of the Mojave desert. "Wham! Right through this house. Wham! Right through that house. The funny thing is, there aren't that many houses out here...
...open hostilities, even limited to allied air strikes, would be perilous for both leaders. Saddam could not be sure his luck would hold again against Kurds, Shi'ites and his own disgruntled generals -- not to mention U.S. smart bombs. Bush faces a more complex set of inhibitions. Saddam has been playing a brilliant game of "cheat and retreat," chipping away at the sanctions without driving the allies to retaliation. He is not likely to hand Bush the kind of flagrant breach that would spur a unanimous vote for war among U.S. allies. Washington is prepared to go it alone, says...
Powell is caught up in the brave new whirl of sports science. Fast disappearing are the days when an elite athlete was simply the product of hard work, a gruff coach and a little luck. Today science has become an indispensable part of the formula for more and more world-class competitors, who find that the margin between gold and silver is often a centimeter or a hundredth of a second. Helping mold athletes today is a growing army of specialists -- from physiologists and psychologists to nutritionists and biomechanists. Result: athletes who are training not just harder but smarter. With...
...Because she's virtually uncovered, any kind of preventative medicine or checking out something early, we wouldn't do, because it's going to involve a really big doctor's bill," Rathbun said. "She's reasonably young and healthy, she's only 34, but her luck isn't going to hold out forever...
Anna thought that if she used her hands and head, she could find a job in Israel--but she has had no luck so far. She clings to the hope that some kind of work will surface soon...