Voodoo because it is more like a superstitious belief than a rational strategy.
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Athletes are a superstitious bunch, but consulting a fortune teller might seem a little bit too "ancient Olympics" for many of today's athletes, who put more faith in hi-tech equipment and specialized training regimes.
Like a superstitious baseball player who wears the same pair of socks on a long hitting streak, we tend to do the same things over and over in our businesses.
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While most would deny it, great leaders share a superstitious sense that it is their destiny to succeed.
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Superstitious fear of a second disastrous crash, seventy years on, might conceivably drive dealers and investors to sell shares.
Hong Kong is a superstitious place where people regularly put out offerings of food and other gifts for dead relatives.
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The announcement comes on an important day for The Times--and no, it's not because of the peculiar date, if you happen to be of a superstitious inclination.
In the grocery store, listening to the same talk over and over, I began to feel a superstitious fear, the presentiment that in these endless discussions something awful was being hatched.
Some managers might be superstitious and not change anything during a winning streak, no matter how brief.
"Room 213A. It started a little trend, " meaning superstitious competitors requesting rooms that incorporated the date of the dog show's final night when Best In Show is announced.
It is a fascinating time watching some of the superstitious behaviour in the pre-match build up.
Indeed, if superstitious, take into account that Ancient Chinese wisdom advises a Snake in the house because it protects you and and your family from starving.
No matter what happened to real-estate prices in this superstitious Chinese city, the one surefire way to get a cheap apartment was to move in with a ghost.
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"I'm guardedly optimistic that we'll emerge tonight with a good lead, but I'm very superstitious so I'm not predicting anything, " McCain said.
Ex-President Suharto, the country's deposed ruler, a Javanese, was, and presumably still is, deeply superstitious, being guided by his astrologer in important decisions.
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