Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another odd turn in the convoluted case, Paris police have obtained two alleged copies of the confidential Dassault dossier. Although they have not divulged the file's contents, Dassault made another appearance on French television last week to counter widespread speculation that the affair hinges on a cover-up of bribes and other dubious financial dealings by his company. As for his absconding employee, Dassault benignly welcomed him home as a "prodigal son." French justice may not be so kind: if found guilty of fraud, he could be sentenced to two years in prison and fined 36,000 francs...
...stage is set for a bruising grille-to-grille marketing battle. Superficially, GM seems to have picked an odd year to proclaim that less is more. During the 1976 model run, consumers, who had been choosing smaller cars ever since the late 1973 Arab oil embargo, unexpectedly shifted back to the bigger models...
...they do, splendidly. There is the yarn about the innocent temptress from Biloxi, Miss., and the odd revenge she takes on the man who steals her away. That one is topped by the tale of the fastest Jeep in the world and a deadly race in the Mexican foothills. A graduate student contributes a chiller about a pack of man-eating cats in his home town...
...Nader really live in the house on Washington's Bancroft Place that his brother bought in 1971 for $80,000 rather than in the spartan $85-a-month room he claims as his residence? Sanford found a local resident who says he sees Nader in the neighborhood "at odd hours nearly every day." That is hardly conclusive evidence...
...double the amount," wheedles an old hand at the Detroit market. Many farmers do not put up much of a fight since they can pull in $1,000 on a good Saturday. Some of the farm folk even admit to a fondness for those odd city shoppers in their Lacoste shirts and Gucci shoes. Says Michael Temple, a grower from Brewster, N.Y., who peddles his produce in Manhattan each week: "The people here are nicer than back home, where there are farm stands all over the place...