He explained that he and the other researchers used the phrase "abnormal returns" to describe profits "beyond the area that we would call normal good fortune," money so large that "it's not rational to assume that they are just plain dumb-lucky".
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We always say that Tim and Sam Duvet are Tim and Sam Richardson if we were half as lucky and twice as dumb".
What they can do, at their best, is urge the passage of transformative legislation (Social Security, the Affordable Care Act), promote domestic and international tranquility, and, if the nation is lucky, avoid in President Obama's phrase—"dumb wars".
What they can do, at their best, is urge the passage of transformative legislation (Social Security, the Affordable Care Act), promote domestic and international tranquility, and, if the nation is lucky, avoid — in President Obama's phrase — "dumb wars".
I just feel lucky that in the past few years, all the dumb shit I do when I'm stoned is actually managing to entertain some people.
At other theatres you worked your way up from dumb understudy to supernumerary to maybe getting a few lines and then, if you were lucky, a proper part.
"If this particular patient is lucky enough not to be durably harmed by the Gleevec, that's just dumb luck," Wachter said, referring to the drug that Watson received.
If you're lucky enough to be in one of these cars, and your abductor was dumb enough to overlook it, find the release and pull it down or up, as the model may require.
The woman said to her husband, "He's just a dumb-idiot manager who probably keeps all deposits for himself anyway and was just lucky in pointing out a particular spot on the carpet".
If you were lucky a smart nurse would tell you if you were about to do something really dumb".
