Word: oddly
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...While it may seem odd that yakuza could be hit by budget cuts, they're not immune to government belt-tightening. The construction industry has always been the lifeblood of the yakuza-the gumi in Yamaguchi-gumi is also frequently used to denote construction companies. During Japan's bubble economy in the 1980s, crime lords feasted on the lucrative real estate sector. Yakuza made a mint by intimidating residents into selling their property at below-market prices. Many gangs plowed profits into real estate projects-especially golf courses, which became one of the most mobbed-up industries in Japan. When...
...Good fences make good neighbors, the saying goes. But at a time when the world is supposed to be more interconnected than ever, isn't there something a little odd about the rush to fortification? It's as if countries have decided, "I'm happy to do business with you, but just don't come near me," veteran Indian journalist Suman Dubey told me recently. "We're opening our minds and economies to each other, but physically we're making it harder than ever to move around...
Many of those additional people were indentured servants who, in return for their transatlantic passage, bound themselves to labor for seven years. In 1619 the White Lion, a privateer, brought a new labor source--"20 and odd negroes" from Angola. Our original sin was not very original--Spain and Portugal had already brought 200,000 African slaves to the Americas--and the colony was slow to exploit the practice. Slaves did not outnumber indentured servants in Virginia until the 1670s. Once acquired, however, the habit of bondage would prove addicting--economic and social nicotine...
...odd high school students who received admissions decisions in the mail from Harvard last month could have learned a lot about their prospects without even opening the envelope...
...Annenberg, there’s always the one guy who eats well. While the rest of the freshman class cowers before the difficult choices—chicken vindaloo or Chickwich?—the one guy who eats well makes odd selections from the condiments at the salad bar, uses lots of soy milk, and starts slipping fives to dining hall workers in exchange for new ingredients. At the end of it all, he pulls a soufflé out of the microwave...