Word: odd
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...more boys are coming out," says Young says. "People believe that boxing is a way to gain. Because of Samuel Peter, people know this is another avenue to succeed in life." Most of the aspirants train in the mornings and evenings, then spend the days searching for menial odd jobs. Among the hopefuls is Mark Anthony Ennenim, 26, a wiry fighter whose long dreadlocks earned him the nickname Rasta. Ennenim sleeps on a thin prayer mat in a small hallway above the gym, where he's been training for two years...
...earned. The goal on Viva la Vida, he's said, was to "get better rather than bigger"--which explains the choice of Brian Eno as co-producer. Eno, 60, was a founding member of Roxy Music but gained his greatest fame as the composer of such endearingly odd ambient albums as Music for Airports and as the producer behind U2's sonic leap on its fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire. He's a mystical figure in rock circles for, among other things, using hypnosis to help bands reach creative nirvana. Even his name sounds like a hallucinogen...
...regionally focused. Though multiple survey courses on Western (meaning European) history, intellectual thought, and art are offered, an equivalent for other parts of the world is nowhere to be found. Despite research centers as far as Mumbai and Harvard’s claims to be an international institution, an odd whiff of Eurocentrism still wafts through the Cambridge air.Of course, concerns about the responses to globalization and multiculturalism in the academy are not novel. In fact, this year’s General Education program was originally conceived as an antidote to the university’s increasingly specialized core curriculum...
...allocated some other way--in this case, in what was to become an iconic symbol of the times, by long lines at gasoline stations. In 1974, in an attempt to overcome the unintended consequences of price controls, drivers in many places were permitted to buy gasoline only on odd or even days of the month, depending on the last digit of their license plate number. Moreover, with the controlled price of U.S. crude oil well below world prices, growth in domestic exploration slowed and production was curtailed--which, of course, only made things worse...
...gallon are a huge burden for many households, as well as for truckers, manufacturers, farmers, and others. But, in many other ways, the economic consequences have been quite different from those of the 1970s. One obvious difference is what you don't see: drivers lining up on odd or even days to buy gasoline because of price controls or signs at gas stations that say "No gas." And until the recent slowdown--which is more the result of conditions in the residential housing market and in financial markets than of higher oil prices--economic growth was solid and unemployment remained...