LARRY KUDLOW: I think it is a very flukey number.
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Success is a flukey, meaningless thing that has nothing to do with creation.
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There's no flukey sudden-death play that's going to bring things to an unceremonious end.
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This suggests the Democratic swing isn't just a flukey dynamic of low-turnout special elections.
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Wins and losses can be flukey, but virtually every SEC team—minus Alabama—showed major flaws.
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You called a silly flukey number, so you don't believe it is reflective of all of a slowdown in growth?
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"These special elections can be flukey," Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the election analysis website Sabato's Crystal Ball, told me.
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Donald Trump's flukey, narrow win in the 2016 presidential election did not inaugurate some crazy new era in which the rules don't apply and nothing matters.
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The Bruins' only goal was a flukey one in the last minute of the second period, the only flub in an otherwise brilliant game by Bobrovsky.
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That said, Republicans have spent the past year acting as if a narrow — and extremely flukey — Trump Electoral College win made him an unstoppable man of destiny.
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There was nothing flukey or controversial about the finish, no case for a lucky punch or for benefiting from an opponent rolling in with an abbreviated training camp.
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He broke back, then never looked in danger in the tiebreak, bringing up set points with a flukey netcord that had him casting his eyes to the heavens.
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And we are expensing, despite the silly, flukey number, we are on a roll and I'm going to say that the outlook for the American economy is still 3% growth plus.
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When Barack Obama captured his party's nomination for Illinois Senate in 2004, it was as a candidate who started out as an extreme underdog and benefited from the flukey implosion of his rivals' campaigns.
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His initial electoral win was razor-thin and a little bit flukey, featuring both a Republican challenger and a fairly conservative Democratic incumbent who essentially split the vote, allowing a third-party candidate to slip past and achieve victory.
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As if to give him a helping hand on his Court Philippe Chatrier debut, the tennis gods gave him a flukey netcord and a Nadal double-fault to break in the opening game before he held on in confident fashion with a couple of juicy winners.
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Then through a flukey chain of circumstances, I ended up sending it to Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, the producers, and they got it to MTV Films, which was just starting up, and MTV and Albert and Ron got it to Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor.
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In the winter of 2004 to 2005, George W. Bush had just been reelected, and Republicans held majorities in both houses of Congress — electoral victories that they had, in all cases, won more or less fair and square rather than depending on gerrymandering or flukey maps.
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Giles Scott, who has taken over the men's Finn single-handed class mantle from sailing's most successful Olympian Ben Ainslie, said the focus is on getting as much time on the water as possible in Rio to help conquer the vagaries of complex tides, flukey winds and floating garbage.
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Two years later in November 1986, Flukey would also be murdered, along with his chauffeur, sitting inside a 1986 Cadillac limousine while talking on his wireless telephone. Stokes was 48 years old.
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Feola was two lengths back in third ahead of Traffic Light with Veuve Clicquot and Tide-Way in seventh and eighth. Contemporary reports described her victory as "decidedly flukey". Lovely Rosa was beaten in her subsequent races: she finished third to Crested Crane and Trelissia in the Falmouth Stakes and was unplaced behind Barrowby Gem in the Newmarket Oaks.
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Scholars, such as Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter and Dankwart A. Rustow have argued against the notion that there are structural "big" causes of democratization. These scholars instead emphasize how the democratization process occurs in a flukey manner which depends on the unique characteristics and circumstances of the elites who ultimately oversee the shift from authoritarianism to democracy.
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Willie Stokes garnered international notoriety for the arrangements he made for his son Willie the Wimp's funeral. The younger Stokes followed his father's example trafficking narcotics and rivaled his dad's appetite for gambling. Flukey said of his son, "[he was] a fine young man; he was very well liked and did a lot of gambling." Willie the Wimp was buried in a custom-designed casket made to resemble a Cadillac Seville.
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Lucas' stage name, F.Stokes, derives from Flukey Stokes, who lived in his Chicago neighborhood growing up. In 2009, he released a collaborative studio album with producer Lazerbeak, titled Death of a Handsome Bride. In 2012, he released the Love, Always EP. In 2013, he released a studio album, Fearless Beauty, entirely produced by Paper Tiger. In that year, he appeared as a rap coach on the MTV television series Made.
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Before this rule, batters could safely swing at many marginal pitches, which not only tired out the pitcher but also allowed for more hits because a "flukey" hit could land in play. With the introduction of the foul-strike rule, the batter had to let many more pitches "go" without being swung on, dramatically reducing the total number of hits. The American League followed suit in 1903, making the rule universal.
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Some of his "shake-and-bake" style moves originated while playing on the asphalt playgrounds. "I had to develop flukey-duke shots, what we call la- la, hesitating in the air as long as possible before shooting," Monroe said. As he was developing as a teenage player, other players would razz him. His mother gave Earl a blue notebook and told him to write down the names of those players.
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Notwithstanding the $200,000 anniversary bash Flukey arranged for his wife, nor the wedding vows they renewed on that occasion, he was with a mistress the day he was murdered. Stokes was killed by two men who lay in wait for him as he stopped to drop off his girlfriend, Diane Miller, outside her residence on 79th Street and S. Ellis Avenue. On November 19, 1986, at 12:38 a.m., a gunman armed with a 12-gauge pump shotgun, pointed at the windshield and shot out the glass.
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The killer whales would also feed on the many fish and birds that would show up to pick at the smaller scraps and runoff from the fishing. Many of the Eden killer whales were individually known and named, often after whalers who had died. Some of best known killer whales included Tom (who died 15 September 1930), Hooky, Humpy (died 1926/7), Cooper, Typee (died 1901), Jackson, Stranger, Big Ben, Young Ben, Kinscher (female), Jimmy, Sharkey, Charlie Adgery, Brierly, Albert, Youngster, Walker, Flukey, Big Jack, Little Jack, Skinner, Montague.
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The son of a school superintendent and a drama teacher, raised in South Dakota, Holgate originally intended to become a classical actor and studied drama with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University. While there, however, he was discovered by Boris Goldovsky, and went on to study opera at both Tanglewood and the New England Conservatory. In 1959, Holgate, a bass-baritone, won second prize in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, finishing after Teresa Stratas; he went on to tour with Goldovsky's New England Opera Theater.Kevin Kelly, "'Flukey Kind of Thing...'", Boston Globe, December 16, 1990, pg.
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Willie Morris "Flukey" Stokes (December 12, 1937 – November 19, 1986) was an American reputed mobster from Chicago, Illinois. Stokes was from the South Side and well known for his silk suits, diamond rings, and flamboyant lifestyle as a drug trafficking kingpin and pool hall owner. Stokes immortalized himself in Chicago by throwing a US$200,000 party on his 30th wedding anniversary in 1985 and for the decadent funeral he arranged for his murdered 28-year-old son, Willie "the Wimp" Stokes, Jr. in February 1984. The elder Stokes had his son buried in a Cadillac-style coffin with $100 bills stuffed between his diamond ring-laden fingers.
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In baseball statistics, Batting average on balls in play (abbreviated BABIP) measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits, or how many balls in play against a pitcher go for hits, excluding home runs.Fangraphs Library BABIP is commonly used as a red flag in sabermetric analysis, as a consistently high or low BABIP is hard to maintain—much more so for pitchers than hitters. Therefore, BABIP can be used to spot flukey seasons by pitchers, as with other statistical measures; those pitchers whose BABIPs are extremely high can often be expected to improve in the following season, and those pitchers whose BABIPs are extremely low can often be expected to decline in the following season. A normal BABIP is around .
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