Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this was odd; the water was The Charles, and not the deep...
...particulars filed by four inspectors, the scandal began when Broker Bert bought up huge quantities of cheap red wine from the Midi in 1973, when prices for Bordeaux reds had soared in a speculative binge. He also bought quantities of Bordeaux whites, whose prices were not rising. One odd loophole in the government's appellation controlée regulations was that official papers for wines were marked by region of origin but not by color. Bert was accused of switching the papers for the two batches of wines by stamping blanc on the Midi documents and rouge on those...
...cases present an odd contrast to the American government's unwillingness even to let people who never killed anyone, and in many cases went into exile to stay that way, back into the country. And the cases are a reminder that people with greater responsibility for more deaths than the Guardsmen or Calley, and whose orders made the Guardsmen's and Calley's actions likely--the folks running the Ohio and especially the United States governments--never came up for trial at all. Indeed, the idea of trying them remains as unconsidered as a proposition that the government owes draft...
...most of his life, Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) was known to friends and business associates as a successful insurance executive who also dabbled in composing odd and seemingly unplayable music. He was past 50 in fact before anyone important performed his works. He finished his Symphony No. 3, for example, in 1904; it was not performed until 1946, and a year later earned Ives a Pulitzer Prize. He finished his Symphony No. 4 in 1916; it was not played in its entirety until...
...Odd Favor. For example, despite the worrisome success of oil exporting nations in maintaining extortionate prices for petroleum now, the study suggests that they will not be able to keep them up. In order to hold 1985 prices at $11 per bbl., approximately the current level, Middle East nations would have to hold production to slightly less than half what they could pump. Oddly enough, they would be doing the U.S. a kind of favor if they did follow that strategy: American imports of oil in 1985 would drop to 3.5 million bbl. a day, from 6.3 million now. Reasons...