Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best things about being really rich must be how easy it is to get even richer. And this means not the odd $5,000 that earns a cool 18% a year on the eternal bull market (though we're not complaining, either, Mr. Greenspan) but the odd $5 million that returns 18% in four hours in the latest initial public offering (IPO)--as long as you're loaded enough to get offered such a deal in the first place...
...rest of The Peacemaker moves with familiar efficiency. It ain't DreamWorst. It's just an odd little film for the big guys to say hello with...
Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 loves her planner, and with good reason. It's no coincidence that she and former campus politico Avery W. Gardiner '97 share the same taste in schedule books, nor is it odd that Lamelle-who's worked enough crowds to let her first name stand alone-has chosen a planner with an open space for daily notes that shifts to the next day if items are not checked off or properly put to rest...
...journal Nature. Using computer simulations, University of Colorado scientists showed how a single moon can grow in this fashion. The researchers conducted 27 simulations which tracked up to 2,700 objects in orbit around the Earth. Two-thirds of the time, the computer produced one moon. What is odd is that other simulations showed two moons forming. So how come we aren't staring at two lunar discs today? If an extra one was created, say the researchers, it must have been pulled into Earth after drifting too close. But perhaps the most intriguing result was the time frame...
...peculiarities of management, but he also took careful notes. At P&G, for instance, he had a front-row seat for corporate marketing. He still chuckles about the P&G executives so dazzled by the success of Bounce--a tissue impregnated with fabric softener--that they jumped to the odd conclusion that the idea might work for hair care. The result was a conditioner-impregnated tissue. Case helped invent a catchy slogan--"Towelette? You bet!"--and then watched the product implode. "Consumers," Case says, "are smart. Good marketing can only get you a trial. If the product's bad, sales...