Word: odd
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Many of you won’t do those things simply because you’ll be spending too much time chasing money rather than fascinations. How odd that this has come to pass, given that America is now a far more affluent place than when I was your age. One of the many reasons it has is that college and graduate education has become so expensive. There’s been a steady run-up in tuition over the past four decades, not just at Harvard. Unless you’re rich or near-rich, paying for college...
...police on arrival and state their business, Russian police and security structures are so corrupt that Chechen fighters can move around the capital with little fear of getting caught. Any unofficial visitor, including young Chechen males, can easily stay as long as they want merely by paying the odd $3 to $6 bribe. The guerrillas who carried out the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 even had their own weapons and explosives trucked in from Chechnya. Last week's bombing, says Lilia Shevtsova, a top analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, "ruins the Putin image of the President in control...
Though the defense in front of him struggled to curtail speedy BC’s odd-man breakouts off turnovers in the neutral zone, Daigneau slammed the door shut on the Eagles for the remainder of the second period and well into the third until BC tacked on an insurance goal courtesy of a pair of Crimson mistakes...
Pinker estimated that around 500 people tried to squeeze into Emerson 105’s 300-odd seats—and the room’s aisles...
...They’ve generated some odd-man rushes,” Stone said. “We’re right on the edge of getting some 2-1 great opportunities. I think that’s part of the reason we wanted [Chu] jump-started a little...