Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...players definitely did not feel Lady Luck's presence with them on the field yesterday...
...arms race would be easy, not even in the aftermath of the Cold War. While President Clinton still faces a tough battle to get Senate approval for the nuclear test-ban treaty he signed a year ago ? and touted at the U.N. on Monday ? Al Gore is having better luck. He and his friend of four years, the Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, signed an historic deal Tuesday halting the production of weapons-grade plutonium ? the next step, say negotiators, toward a less nuclear world...
...think it's a matter of luck," Miller said. "Individually we are doing very well. We're beating opponents one-on-one, but we haven't had that many games together. We'll do a lot better finishing once we get used to playing with one another...
...rise of Peter Knight is an arc defined by Gore. Shortly after directing Gore's failed 1988 presidential bid, Knight decided to try his luck at the influence game. Thanks to an old friend and fellow Cornell alumnus, Ken Levine, he landed in 1991 at the Washington firm Wunder, Diefenderfer, Cannon & Thelen. Several partners in the firm, recognizing that Knight's tie to Gore had potential, kicked in about $7,000 each of their own money, in addition to what the firm was offering, to help bring Knight in. Until mid-1992, though, Knight was "negative" at the firm...
This seemed nutty. Compete with IBM? Sears? Even Case's mother, a retired teacher in Hawaii, worried a little. But Case was operating with a bit of screwy good luck and the market savvy that comes from hard knocks. He looked at American consumers and somehow understood what it would take to get them online. IBM and CompuServe bet that the real lure would be lots of fancy computer features. Case, with the taste of dozens of complex pizzas still in his mouth, knew better. What America wanted was cheese, tomato sauce and occasionally some pepperoni. AOL would reek with...