Word: odd
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...odd way, Murtha sounded an awful lot like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who, according to high-ranking military officials, has seemed slightly annoyed that the war in Iraq has diverted resources from his real goal of "transforming" the military into a high-tech outfit that can scare the bejeezus out of China. Rumsfeld's Pentagon has refused to undertake the violent reordering of priorities-more special forces, more intelligence, zero boats-needed to fight a scruffy, labor-intensive struggle against an enemy that thrives in shadows in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Rumsfeld's relative indifference to the shooting...
...This odd legal standoff in the all-important U.S. market shows little sign of ending, as neither Republican efforts to stiffen the laws nor Democratic efforts to loosen them are getting anywhere in Congress. In the face of such inertia, gaming firms are getting brazen. One British outfit, Sportingbet, runs ads on ESPN for its Sportsbook.com site and recently put up a huge billboard in New York City's Times Square featuring a pretty model and the slogan EVERYBODY BETS. PartyGaming CEO Segal says big American media groups seem less reluctant to air gaming ads than they were...
...summer of 1963 when they sign on to tend a herd of sheep on the eponymous peak, which director Ang Lee locates high in ravishing Marlboro Country. Ennis is a slow-drawling man's man, a simple soul content to live out a life of low-paying odd jobs. Jack is more restless--a not very successful rodeo rider when the spirit moves him but also a man for other, upwardly mobile opportunities. He's the one who initiates their first sexual encounter, although in the act itself he plays the passive role while Ennis is the aggressor...
...manufacturing firm Christie, which will provide almost 200 of Britain's new projectors. But paying for ongoing costs, such as transferring films from 35-mm to digital, encoding them and getting them to movie theaters, calls for more creative solutions. Avica, which makes servers, wants to digitize all 500-odd screens in Ireland using private funding. In its bid to convert 500 screens across Europe by 2007, Belgian firm XDC will charge theater owners a small monthly fee and make up the difference itself. And at Disney, which recently installed 84 digital projectors in the U.S. to show...
Instead, he started working odd jobs in his teens, primarily to “take control of my life and, you know, do what I gotta...