Whether the Suck for Luck campaign has any merit, one thing is absolutely sure.
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And I kissed her on the cheek, and I said, 'That's for luck.
"Imagine actors in the future crossing the theatre and perhaps paying homage to Shakespeare as they go on stage for luck, " she added.
In this rough region, where people have long worked the land, lived by their wits, taken risks, hoped for luck and respected authority, most local people welcome WIPP.
But Mr. Ergen doesn't discount the role of luck, which may be why he has several bottles of feng shui water in his office and says he has "feng shui-ed" with rituals for luck all his satellite launches since Dish first sent a satellite into the sky in 1996 on a Chinese rocket that was charmed by auspicious Chinese water and chants.
And who knew that Hideki Matsui eats fried pork before games for good luck?
He is hoping for better luck with a plan to shake up their attitudes to risk.
He carries a penny that the publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader gave him for good luck.
And the Grand Concourse resembles the spacious Parisian thoroughfare it was modeled after, with a few bodegas thrown in for good luck.
The special tradition "Mamemaki" involves throwing beans, specifically roasted soya beans at a member of the family or out of the door for good luck.
The mother and daughter giggled and rubbed their bellies as if for good luck, thinking about Sydney's niece -- Yost's daughter -- who will be called Bobbi Ann.
Gronholm is aiming for his first Acropolis victory and is hoping for more luck than last time in Sardinia when he had to retire after hitting a rock.
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With hard times in mind, she put a dancing shoe in the window along with a CD of gospel music for good luck and to tell onlookers something about herself.
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The son of a vaudeville performer, he pioneered "eatertainment": showcasing knife-juggling chefs and opening new restaurants with a flourish of Japanese drummers, priests and a barrel of sake broken for good luck.
According to the CBO, under the most likely assumptions (and a lot of hoping for good luck along the way), the national debt will approach one hundred percent of GDP within ten years.
In the old days (before the 1950s), a real log was doused with brandy and thrown on to the hearth, where its flames were scrutinised as a harbinger of the next year's harvest and its ashes preserved for good luck.
The machine does not allow modifications to its ROM (because it has an O in the middle), but the team was able to use a technique called return-oriented programming to modify how the machine executes existing code, taking the bits they want and, ultimately, devising a way to re-program its behavior by simply inserting a cartridge into a slot -- presumably after blowing on it for good luck.
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After three years of frustrated hopes for change and a lot of bad luck for Japan and its opposition parties the conservatives are setting back into power, and plowing old furrows.
It was more bad luck for Busch, who has never won a Sprint Cup race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and suffered his share of bad luck.
"Congratulations ... good luck for the rest of the season, " Nadal told Djokovic at the ceremony.
With retirement came a bit of real estate luck for TV personality Regis Philbin.
"I'd been down on my luck for quite some time, " he told Radio 4's The World This Weekend programme.
As far as the farmers are concerned, it is just a case of bad luck for the British.
The latest ruling by the special immigration appeals commission ends a long run of good luck for Mrs May.
But there was no luck for Oliver Golding who was beaten by 16th seed Mitchell Frank in the boys' singles.
As I described in a recent Cato policy paper, this is more than just tough luck for a few companies.
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There are even admonitions to avoid certain activities on New Year's Day because they portend bad luck for the coming year.
Simon Mensing tried his luck for Hamilton in the opening minutes with a powerful strike which curled narrowly wide of Ma-Kalambay's post.
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