Word: odd
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Credit Suisse analyst Heath Terry isn't worried about the odd billion spent on new facilities or the free lunches for which the company is famous. His concern is Bill Gates & Co. "Google knows that their biggest threat is now Microsoft," says Terry. Having dragged its feet on search while Google built an empire, Microsoft has been spending heavily on its Web index and recently partnered with Facebook to provide ads for the popular social site. "To believe that Yahoo!, Ask and Microsoft are not going to improve and take share from Google is naive," says Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn...
...complex world. And that leaves out of the discussion all the time they need to read what they care to read, see what they need to see at the movies and on television - to experience the materials that have at least the possibility of nurturing their imaginations and whatever odd ambitions that might, in a few cases, make them into extraordinary scientists or writers or musicians or thinkers...
...Georgia Rule” and for acting “like a spoiled child.” Star Jones had a blowout with Barbara Walters after her contract was not renewed on “The View.” Citing Tom Cruise’s odd behavior off the screen, Paramount Pictures owner Sumner Redstone ended the studio’s 14-year relationship with the star. He might not be a celebrity per se, but John Mark Karr certainly made headlines after his shocking confession to accidentally killing Jon Benet Ramsey ten years ago. Apprehended in Bangkok...
...horrible season for film: countless, poorly-written remakes including “Bewitched” and “Herbie: Fully Loaded,” the un-anticipated role of Jane Fonda opposite J.Lo in “Monster-In-Law,” Jamie Foxx’s odd post-Oscar choice “Stealth,” and the Paris Hilton vehicle “House of Wax.” Don’t get me wrong, all this dredge lined the way for the notable successes of “Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge...
...writing room, he was head boy, and possibly a stern one, in the minds of the two youngest members, Palin and Idle. "In an odd way he always still looks on us as if we're still just junior people coming around," Idle says in the book. "But of course at this age it's good to be four years younger than John." At other times, Python writing sessions sometimes deteriorated into skirmishes between the C's (Cambridge alums Cleese, Chapman and Idle) and the O's (Oxonians Jones and Palin and Occidental College graduate Gilliam). It wasn...