Word: odd
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...Sandie Lee, a Hong Kong travel agent, has spotted the same trend. "Customers tell me their companies don't want them to go anywhere," she laments, "just in case they bring some bug back." But she is seeing the odd booking "for the end of June, to places like Singapore and Phuket, and promotions by airlines have done very well...
...Americans currently out of work, but they can directly improve people?s lives, more effectively than the feds can in many instances. First of all, those governments are responsible for managing the front lines of homeland security. At a time when many Americans fear another terrorist attack, it?s odd that cities are laying off firefighters. If Bush doesn't provide one, a Democratic candidate who laid out an aggressive federal plan to figure out exactly what state and cities need and then provide the resources to do it would make many Americans sleep easier at night - and lift some...
...cannot be accused of claiming any "special rights." She's embracing the old American virtue of doing your best against the best, and not letting anything - gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation - get in the way. That was once the core, simple, unifying message of the civil rights movement. Odd, isn't it, that it took a Swedish female golfer to remind...
...Harvard lightweights are ranked No. 4 in their poll, which has fluctuated wildly every week due to the closeness off the top crews. The Crimson ranking matches its most recent finish at Eastern Sprints. History is on their side, however, because Harvard has won the title in every odd year since...
...either mysterious or unmysterious. Among the uncomplicated, unmysterious characters: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. The others--Roosevelt himself, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton (the jury is still out on George W. Bush)--confront a historian with odd opacities of character: neuroses, compulsions, contradictions or (in the cases of Roosevelt and Reagan) an impenetrable geniality. Reagan's biographer Edmund Morris concluded that the man's apparent depthlessness was itself an enigma, a kind of blank, like the whiteness of the whale...