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Simple luck?
Or plain and simple luck, of the sort Steven Bradbury has just enjoyed.
He stressed it's too soon to know whether it was simple luck or other factors that made the difference.
You can make a very plausible case that a huge amount of investing prowess is simple luck.
"Or the outcome may result from inferior performance by defense counsel, unanticipated defense concessions, unexpectedly favorable rulings by the court, an unexpectedly sympathetic jury or simple luck".
Since fund managers incur costs, the performance of the average fund manager is doomed to lag the index.A good proportion of managers will beat the index in a given period, whether through their own skill or simple luck.
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If you cheat at UNO, being such a simple, luck-based game, and you are found out, which is what commonly occurs, people will consider you a sore loser as well as immature.
Toward simple bad luck?
Another is simple bad luck.
Perhaps the best explanation for American poetry's Nobel travails is simple bad luck.
By that reasoning, it's the simple bad luck that the downturn happened on their watch that may doom Messrs Stoltenberg and Rudd.
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