Word: eccentricism
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Even the notorious penny pinching that had delighted Wall Street in WorldCom's heyday came to look eccentric, if not petty. As WorldCom began laying off close to 10% of its 80,000 worldwide employees this year, Ebbers took away such perks as coffee machines and monthly $25 long-distance...
The leaders of the lush, beautiful Black Sea enclave of Abkhazia, without official recognition by any country and still in ruins after a bloody war of independence with Georgia 10 years ago, have a modest though eccentric dream: to become the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Marshall Islands, an associated...
There is an understated elegance to the writing that enriches the flow of the story. It is never overtly flashy, never sacrificing function for form. When describing a girl with a penchant for eccentric dress, for example, Hank comments that “she claims she’s Goth...
Hurlbut received his share of eccentric letters, including this one from D. Blake in Murchison, Texas, in 1915:
Foster portrays Meg Altman, a newly divorced mother who decides to purchase a newly available brownstone on the Upper West Side. Formerly owned by an eccentric millionaire, the apartment boasts a “panic room,” which is essentially a locked room deisgned to keep out invaders...