Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact is, leaving college with no permanent strings attached is a frightening and exhilarating idea; but we aren't simply more adventurous than our parents were. No, there have been fundamental differences in the last 40-odd years that, I think, have led to a reconceptualization of the institution of marriage...
Perhaps it's the numbing effect of living in a country whose cultural emblem is a statue of a urinating cupid, but it wasn't even close: Libidinous pursuits accounted for a feckless 1.7 percent of the million-odd calls to Scoot over the past five months, in marked contrast to the numbers typically racked up by sex searches on Internet-only systems. Besides pizza procurement -- the runaway winner -- other popular query topics up Waterloo way include travel and party locations. In other words, directions to Domino...
...trip to the Mass. Eye and EarInfirmary--inspired by his roommates' "cynicism,skepticism and sarcasm" about UHS--confirmed thediagnosis but produced more aggressive treatment.Staff at the hospital told him swelling and thescratch's odd location complicated his condition...
...cult of nonpersonality," he once told the Washington Post, via a spokeswoman. His brother Tony, an outside adviser to Vice President Al Gore, says his brother's "real ambition is to open up a T-shirt store in Maui." All these traits would seem to make Podesta an odd choice for a job that consists of keeping peace in the brawling White House and selling its products to the outside world. Until now, Podesta rarely showed up on Washington's two big power circuits: on TV or at cocktail parties. He doesn't have cable TV in his home...
...Chances of a bombing were enhanced by the fact that the Pentagon has compiled a sobering list of targets, including many of the 63 missile sites, 120 chemical-weapons sites, 91 biological-weapons sites and more than 100-odd nuclear-weapons sites where Iraq may be engaged in banned weapons work. "These are militarily measurable objectives," said a Navy officer. "If you destroy half of his missile factories, you can conclude you?ve destroyed half of his missile-building capability." With the U.N. sitting quietly by, Iraq may be too target-rich to resist...