Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smith and Malone had been an odd couple from the start. Smith, 56, an amateur actor and playwright who turned Bell Atlantic into the most venturesome of the seven Baby Bells, had come up through the staid bureaucratic ranks of AT&T before its breakup in 1984. Malone, 52, is a strong-willed, publicity-averse entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in operations research who built the fledgling TCI into the country's largest cable operator, gaining a reputation for ruthlessness along...
...What was once a commonplace decision is now a rare choice, one which provokes almost as much worry as "coming out" in the modern sense. Many of the debs interviewed were a little reluctant to "come out" about having a coming-out party, or at least found it an odd subject for an article. "It seems like such a non-Harvard thing to do," one noted...
...affectionately dubbed by computer science majors, joined the Harvard security department two years ago. A Korean immigrant to the United States in 1968, Gim has since been doing "odd jobs". Aside from that, Gim was wary about divulging his personal history. "I'm a very private person," he said. "Besides, I'm not very interesting...
...Apple's stock soared, once-faint key-clicks crescendoed into a deafening tumult in libraries into a deafening tumult in libraries and classes. And the odd set of typed notes mushroomed to 900 megabytes of European Intellectual History transcriptions collected by eager Donald Fleming disciples...
...already calling for an / ultimatum, and Washington swiftly agreed. Transatlantic telephone conferences between Presidents Clinton and Francois Mitterrand helped iron out some minor differences. By the time NATO ministers met in Brussels Wednesday, there was a joint Franco-American proposal on the table, possibly the first in the 30-odd years since Charles de Gaulle began fulminating against "les Anglo-Saxons...