Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nowadays, wherever I go, people say, 'That's the man who got the double eagle.' Actually, it was just a piece of luck. They forget the championships...
...Rubin make the boom, or did the boom make Bob Rubin? Rubin himself relentlessly defers the credit to his boss, President Clinton, to Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, to his staff and colleagues at the Treasury Department, to luck, and to a natural, cyclical economic high tide that he merely tried to keep as high as he could for as long as he could -- with considerable success. Wherever credit is due, the Clinton administration has presided over the greatest economic expansion in U.S. history; a 200 percent rise in the stock market; record lows in both unemployment and inflation...
...officers played down the quick capture of the suspects. "Just lucky, just a little luck, that...
...depends on the luck of the draw," Smith says. "I would agree the probable profit rarely justifies the effort extended...
Every parent knows that raising children requires bicycle helmets, Beanie Babies, notebook paper, prayers, skill, the grace of God and plain dumb luck. But what many of us don't ever come to grips with is this: we must take responsibility for the world our children inhabit. We make the world for them. We give it to them. And if we fail them, they will break our hearts 10 different ways...