Word: odd
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When the trustees of the Medicare trust fund released their annual report in April, the Republican leaders in Congress were shocked--shocked!--to learn that the fund is projected to run out of money in 2002, just seven years from now. This reaction was odd. The trustees issue a report every year, and never before has any leading politician, Republican or Democrat, expressed so much panic. This year's report actually showed an improvement over last year's, which projected that the trust fund would go bust in 2001. Yet House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans suddenly declared with...
MUCH OF YOUR REPORT "ADOPTION IN Black and White" [SOCIETY, Aug. 14] was well focused, but you were off the mark in emphasizing the "odd coalition" of adoption advocates and conservative Republicans who are averse to racial preference. In adoption, the fact that conservatives and liberals often agree is not news; adoption is the ultimate win-win solution for many. For at least 15 years, the lonely battle against racism in adoption has been waged mainly by this organization. We battle those who oppose whites adopting blacks as well as others who would stop all transracial, trans ethnic and transnational...
...price-fixing deals were cut at the Mexico session. But a series of odd, unrelated events rapidly transformed Whitacre into an FBI informer. Whitacre told FORTUNE that the FBI showed up at ADM's door at the behest of Dwayne Andreas, but not in search of price fixing. The agency was called in because Andreas suspected that a saboteur was contaminating batches of lysine in ADM's fermenting process. Whitacre says agents soon questioned him about the problem and that he was instructed by Mick Andreas to lie about a few details, including which phone line he used to conduct...
...nice a guy for that line of work. But the sheep, tired of being nipped and woofed at, take a shine to him because Babe speaks politely to them and treats them with respect. He's sort of a liberal humanist on trotters, capable even of the odd, soulful thought about mortality, and a welcome addition to a public life largely given over these days to swinishness of a less exemplary kind...
...odd effect of double image, of not quite being in focus, mars Ursula Hegi's Salt Dancers (Simon & Schuster; 235 pages; $22), a forcefully written novel of child abuse and parental desertion. The author's strength is her unfailing immediacy of language, which illuminated her fine previous novel Stones from the River. Her scenes, as character grates on troubled character, are real and vivid; they command attention. But the book's structure might have been designed by a committee to illustrate how bitter, unresolved childhood memories can be coped with. (Hegi's dedication is "For my women's group...