Word: oddly
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...also struck some as odd that the matter would be addressed on an urgent basis. "I'm looking into this, and I've asked for some information," said Republican Congressman Todd Tiahrt of Kansas. "Why is it an emergency?" Tiahrt, who favored funding only $18 million for preliminary planning and has requested a briefing on a "site survey" conducted for the DNI's space, said the Administration was leaning toward an expensive site in the Tyson's Corner, Va., area of the Washington suburbs. He wants to know why the new intelligence czar can't settle for more reasonably priced...
...attention of Beijing economic planners eager to set up a local VC firm to jump-start the country's technology sector, and in 1999--with $5 million in state investment and a board of directors made up of senior government ministers--NewMargin entered the market as an odd hybrid of old-school state planning and free-market hustle. It now counts telecom giants like Motorola and Alcatel among its investors and this year, according to Feng, will triple its investment capital...
With just 12 seconds left in the first period, a quick pass from Chu to tri-captain Nicole Corriero and one back to Chu gave Harvard an odd-man rush. Instead of pushing it in, however, Chu left it off to the right for a fast-approaching Vaillancourt who beat one Yale defender with a quick move and then put the ensuing shot on net right into Bulldog Sarah Love’s chest...
...George Bush gets a thrill from admitting that he was C-student. It may seems like an odd point to make in the middle of a battle for Social Security-especially when your plan is struggling. But that?s precisely why Bush does it. "For you C students out there, don't give up," he says...
...What makes the pre-planned events seem so life-like at times is that the President can't help interjecting a little of his own banter, swerving the conversation into odd corners. He even at times has a comedian's good timing. When one young college student describes the return on Social Security as "didley-poo," Bush interjects: "it's a financial term." Audiences love his Shriner-style quips. He says to a funeral parlor owner: "I'm not going to ask you how business is." When one speaker finishes, he throws in a self-deprecating one-liner: "Pretty darn...