Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...odd thing about this very modern melodrama is that it was played out among the septuagenarians on the board of Grace, whose founder, Irishman William Grace, started the venture back in 1854 by shipping bird dung from Peru to the U.S. for use as fertilizer. Perhaps more predictably, last week's admission came only after weeks of obfuscation on the part of the troubled company. The $5 billion conglomerate, which produces everything from plastics to kidney-dialysis equipment, initially blamed Bolduc's abrupt departure on "differences of style and philosophy...
...This odd assortment of players won 20 games over spring training, and by the end of the three weeks had truly gelled to become a team...
...only odd thing about this mushrooming industry is that its service is one supposedly performed by state agencies--for free. In 1993 $1.5 billion in federal funds flowed through the Department of Health and Human Services to 54 local agencies charged with hunting down welshers. Though the state programs corralled a lot of shirkers, they are nowhere near keeping up with demand. Texas is typical: it is now handling more than 800,000 cases, making recoveries in only 18% of them...
...Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Britain and France, who also want to try the Libyan intelligence officers, have agreed to help. But Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in announcing the plan today, conceded that it would be tough to persuade the rest of Libya's dozen-odd European customers to scrap flourishing oil deals with the country. President Clinton, mindful of pressure by families of the 270 bombing victims, has twice asked the U.N. Security Council to add oil exports to its embargo against Libya...
Mark Leyner's new Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog is a wacky potpourri of satire that grazes on modern topics from deconstructionism to sperm banks. Tooth Imprints follows Leyner's similarly odd Et Tu, Babe and is jam-packed with random episodes of hysterical weirdness...