1. Everyone decided to help him by offering money as they'd heard he was ________ on his luck.

2. If you want to get the best out of your sales force, they must believe in the product and be ________ enough to promote it vigorously.

3. The main business interest at the moment is to watch the supermarkets ________ for the same clientele.

4. That style of dress was once considered to be a ________ but now it is coming back into fashion.

5. After a lot of discussion we decided to hire a professional to ________ us.

6. From childhood she has been stage ________ and was delighted when she got her first major part in the play at the national theatre.

7. After all his failures in the business world he decided to ________ his luck in the casino.

8. The next thing we needed to work out was the exact ________ of the area that we needed in order to present the event.

9. You really couldn't blame anyone for the accident because it was just a case of ________ luck.

10. Unfortunately the event was never ________ because no one had considered the reaction of the local people to the noise of a loud pop concert.