Imagine a gambler who bets on his lucky number and wins several times in a row.
Expect to hear more about these shrewd but superstitious brothers (they consider 13 to be their lucky number and won't fly together).
Under the hot hand fallacy, the gambler believes the number is likely to come up again and continues to bet on his lucky number.
This would make the excursion lucky number four for Engadget, but this one is a touch on the unique side since it's heading directly to Sprint at some point in the not-too-distant future.
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It had dumped a bunch of oddball assets, including an olive farm in South America, a jet-leasing business and a ski resort, but with six CEOs in eight years (Wood was the potential lucky number seven), Dana remained adrift, a 108-year-old company in search of a new beginning.
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But world-beating manufacturers are so productive, most economists think we would be lucky to see the total number of UK manufacturing jobs go up over the next few years, even if the economy does rebalance, and we achieve rising manufacturing exports.
Sharks number eight Sebastien Chabal was lucky not to follow Jones to the sin bin when he kicked the ball away after his side were penalised for standing up in the scrum.
We've got a number of tips this morning about lucky iPhone 3G S pre-orderers getting shipment notifications from Apple.
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Wearing a cloak with the legend "Dancing Queen" on it, she belted out Lucky Star, which segued seamlessly into her Number 1 hit Hung Up, finishing with a multitude of golden balloons falling over the exuberant crowds at the front.
In the middle is a long list of contacts (sucked in from BBM, Facebook, Twitter and Google Contacts, among others) that is searchable and, in the right tab is a simple dial pad in case you're one of the lucky few who can actually remember a phone number.
So they may start researching a number of drugs, in the hope of striking lucky with just a few.
Some economists say it was lucky for Israel that a big share-dealing scam in the 1980s encouraged governments, after bailing out a number of banks, to pursue conservative fiscal policies and tighten regulation.
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