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.
Stranger still, rhino horn is increasingly offered as a cocaine-like powder to guests at exclusive VIP parties in China and Vietnam as a superstitious way to ward off morning-after hangover symptoms.
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.
For many Anglicans, and for a long time, Roman Catholicism was not just a foreign, superstitious creed, it was demonstrably cruel.
With disarming frankness, she takes on her family one by one: her father (a moderniser only by his tribe's strict standards), her jealous, superstitious mother, her sisters, who suffer a range of tragic fates, her sad feckless brother, who fails in almost all his traditional duties, except that of beating his sisters.
Some managers might be superstitious and not change anything during a winning streak, no matter how brief.
Other dodgy tradesmen make a fortune serving endangered species to superstitious diners.
"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.
This book draws a vivid picture of the decadent, superstitious and gossipy climate of pre-revolutionary Russia, with Rasputin at its centre.
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.
Superstitious by nature, she was also told that she'd marry a man named Ralph that would be my father and that she'd have a brother-in-law named Kurt.
General Chavalit and, especially, his wife are superstitious people who moved house this year to dodge Rahu's wrath and ensure a longer term in office.
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