People look at upsets like Fordham over UMass and call them flukes.

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Peter Flukes, from Liskeard, for services to the community in Plymouth.

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If so, then Dr Baker and Dr Rodriguez, now widely seen as either frauds or flukes, may come to be seen as the father and mother of the hydrogen age.

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Whether they are statistical flukes or just represent thinking outside the box, a few of these zany indicators have sometimes been just as reliable as a room full of high-paid security analysts.

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As you can see, our download rates were a good deal less consistent, although those results in the 20-something range weren't exactly flukes, either: we were on a hot streak of download rates above 25 Mbps before finally coming back down to earth.

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