Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Communication between Wahid and Megawati will become vital in the months ahead, as a new Cabinet is chosen and the political odd couple set about governing the country. "Because Gus cannot read documents, the question is who will control the flow of information to him," says Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Cabinet minister. "There will be fierce competition over who is going to whisper in his ear." Or his mobile phone...
...explosion of dot.com advertising is helping to push up rates 10% to 20% this fall. "It's created an unnaturally tight market," notes Jon Mandel, co-managing director of ad buyer MediaCom. The online magazine Salon recently rolled out a provocative $4 million TV campaign featuring digitally crafted odd couples, like celebrities Chris Rock and Linda Tripp, dancing at a dinner party. "We needed to cast a wider net," says Patrick Hurley, Salon's vice president of marketing. "We're not going to put our head in the sand and pretend that other media don't exist...
...violence of the past year, beginning with the Shepard murder and culminating in September, when seven Christian young people were murdered at a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas. "Columbine, Paducah, the Gaithers, the Shepards, we don't like any of that," Falwell told TIME. It sounds a little odd to compare school shootings in Colorado and Kentucky with anti-gay slayings, but over the past few years, evangelical Christians have begun to see themselves as victims, just as many gays do. Conservative Christians have lost political battles on issues like school prayer, and now many feel they are threatened...
...will companies manage to fill night and weekend positions when they can't find enough people to work a traditional week? Even more important, how will they persuade the highly skilled and well educated, who already have the upper hand in today's tight labor market, to work those odd hours? While devising new ways to attract and hold all types of employees, managers also need to decrease the huge costs associated with off-hours shiftwork. Industrial and other accidents resulting from exhaustion already cost U.S. industry and society over $77 billion a year. One of the most immediate effects...
...easy walk from the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. But the MFA's frustrating lack of commitment to contemporary art leaves a diffuse network of university galleries and miscellaneous non-profits picking up the slack. Fantastic exhibitions are hidden away in odd corners, most reliably at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the List Visual Arts Center and the Rose Art Museum. A new sculpture park is in the works at the Univeristy of Massachusetts at Boston, under the very ambitious direction of art historian Paul Tucker. Pieces by Richard Serra, Nancy Holt...