Word: odd
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...emerge and a sort of order - although not the linear kind - becomes clear. Applying it to career-planning is a relatively new thing. People - like my dad, and probably yours - used to go to work for one company right out of college or the military, stay there for 30-odd years, get an orderly series of promotions and raises, and then retire with a nice guaranteed pension. How quaint! Those days are never coming back. So new grads need more comprehensive tools for plotting their future, because ... well, because the world has gone nuts. Brooks, who is director of liberal...
...pretty much forget about refinancing or selling, the old get-out-of-jail-free cards when you could no longer make your payments. So maybe we should be most worried about the 50% of homes that are underwater in the Detroit area. Or - odd as it may sound - Rhode Island, where the unemployment rate, at 10%, is second only to Michigan, and where 15.7% of mortgage holders are underwater, up from 12.1% in September. (See pictures of the recession...
...Pakistan often conclude that the only thing that unites this discordant nation of tribes, ethnicities, cultures and languages is religion. In 1947 the nation was born as an Islamic state, a refuge for a persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India, newly liberated from colonial rule. Yet 60-odd years later, even as contraband Johnny Walker is liberally poured into the glasses of those who can afford it, Shari'a, or Islamic law, is declared in a district not far from the capital as a concession to the Taliban. Islam no longer unites; it divides. In its place rises...
...Other than the fact that both hail from Minneapolis, what brings this odd couple together is one thing: money. Linking up with an exclusive retailer is not a new idea, but it has proven to be quite a profitable one of late, at least for well-established musicians. The Eagles and AC/DC released their most recent original albums exclusively through Wal-Mart, and in January, Bruce Springsteen gave the chain an exclusive greatest-hits set. Each benefited from massive in-store promotion and stop-the-cart placement - AC/DC's Black Ice sold 1.92 million copies to rank as the fifth...
...Harvard failed to convert on two early power plays and couldn’t find a way to crack Niesluchowski, who came up with one acrobatic save after another to keep the Crimson off the board.Chute got the best opportunity of the opening frame on an odd-man rush with Vaillancourt, but the sophomore’s high shot clanged off the crossbar.“We just weren’t getting the bounces there in the first,” Brine said. “I think we played well defensively…so even though...