Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Good luck--wherever...
...Lady Luck was with us last weekend. We got very lucky," said Cornell Coach Richie Moran. "Everyone's picked us for the cellar this year, so we've been working hard to get the right formula...
French firms have had less luck -- not one has clinched a major Kuwaiti award, French officials say. Many companies are waiting to join a trade mission to Kuwait before pressing their bids. "We have wrongly told ourselves that our policies toward Kuwait have been too ambiguous and too varied for our companies to win contracts," says Antoine Jeancourt-Galignani, chairman of Banque Indosuez, based in Paris. He says Kuwaiti officials have assured him that "Kuwait finds France a solid ally and is prepared to give business to all the coalition members." Just...
Bush's ascendancy is quite different from that of any other President. He had extraordinary luck in the timing of the gulf war. Kissinger points out that the collapse of the communist system and all its ripples through the client states rendered the Soviet leadership virtually helpless when Iraq invaded Kuwait. "There was no able leader comparable to Bush around," says one of the President's advisers. "Gorbachev for all his peace efforts was a sideshow. Margaret Thatcher was gone." The widespread notion that Bush would forever remain in the charismatic shadow of Ronald Reagan or be viewed...
Fortunately, Bush knows better than anyone else the fragility of exaltation and has warned about it since his Inauguration. Even better, Barbara plans to drag him off to a fishing vacation as soon as possible. Herbert Hoover, who never had Bush's luck or touch, nonetheless left some pertinent wisdom for Presidents. He urged them to go fishing at every opportunity. "It is discipline in the equality of men," said Hoover. "For all men are equal before fish...