Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...odd twists of finance, these lesser customers now represent the greater opportunity. Regular bank customers who pay lower rates are no longer borrowing as much as they did. There's a reason: the better-risk customers are tapped out, having run up record levels of debt over the past couple of years in a spending boom. This anomaly, according to Joe Jolson, a leading analyst at Montgomery Securities, is "one of the best-kept secrets on Wall Street...
...topics--domestic and international--seem to suffer selective blindness when the subject is the Middle East. Israel is always in the wrong, the Palestinians always right. No matter that Israel is the only country in the region that is a democracy, with a free press, that 30-odd Israeli political parties express every shade of opinion from the far right to the far left, or that no political action in Israel goes uncriticized. Why then is the American press so quick to accept misstatements and unfounded claims put forth by the Arabs without so much as a demur? An honest...
...Rudy's "odd jobs" campaign--she worked odd jobs all around the district to raise her name recognition--made headlines, but even her authorship of Pennsylvania's "three-strikes" law may not win over voters who went convincingly for George Bush in 1992. Still, Rudy's 13 years as a state legislator make her a known and popular quantity in central and northwestern Pennsylvania...
...characters. Through witty songs and well-chore-ographed dance, it is able to successfully address the problems of marriage in the 1990s, while providing plenty of comic relief. Punch and Judy become the archetypal married couple; as Judy 1 (Lola Pashalinski) says: "We've been together for 200 some odd years--some very odd...
...however, had solid grounds for suspecting Jewell, as the Times' own reporter made clear. Jewell's mysterious absence from his post the night of the bombing, the odd statements he had made to friends in the preceding days and his rudimentary bomb training warranted attention. Jewell was a valid suspect, though his name should not have been leaked to the press so quickly. But without the media's subsequent attack, Jewell's reputation would not have been so permanently scarred. If they had been as skeptical of the FBI probe in July as they are now in late October...