Word: odd
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Make way for the Swatchmobile, a sassy two-seater that looks like a cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and a Rambler. In fact, it is the product of an odd corporate marriage sealed last week between Mercedes-Benz, the maker of luxury cars, and Nicolas Hayek, the man who put almost 150 million Swatches on wrists all over the world. So far, the two companies have worked on separate prototypes, which they plan to merge into a single model produced by a joint company (Hayek's stake is 49%, Mercedes' 51%) for the 1997 market...
After the uprising, Mangope vowed to stay in power, but again with the A.N.C.'s blessing Pretoria placed its ambassador to Bophuthatswana in charge of running the homeland until next month's elections. Mangope's troubles also led to the collapse of the so-called Freedom Alliance, an odd coupling of right-wing black and white parties boycotting the elections in an attempt to preserve some of the privileges they had accrued under apartheid. General Constand Viljoen, leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront, just beat the Friday- night deadline to register a new white separatist party called the Freedom Front. Though...
Walsh talked about how he worked odd jobs toput himself through college and law school. Healso recounted how he took care of his motherafter his father died...
...Odd Couple. See previous listing...
Walsh talked about how he worked odd jobs toput himself through college and law school. Healso recounted how he took care of his motherafter his father died...