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Word: oddness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dusk is a personal alarm for women that's flying off the shelves of leading U.K. retailers and will soon be launched in the U.S. It's an odd device. About the size of an iPod, its sole function is to ward off attackers by emitting the piercing sound of a screaming woman. But what's truly unusual about it is the company that developed it: British ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having It Both Ways in Advertising | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...realize it's an odd time to lobby for higher prices. We're coming off the worst recession in a quarter century. One in ten Americans is out of work and plenty of people feel like they need low prices to be able to buy anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Big Shopping Bargains Are Bad News For America | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...movie, she adapted from her own book - Pippa is a woman on the verge of either a breakdown or an epiphany. The private lives of the title refer to both flashbacks to her youth (in which she's played by that stunning Gossip Girl Blake Lively) and to the odd, secretive relationship she's cautiously beginning with herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pippa Lee: Robin Wright Penn's Moment | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...Kevin J. Mechenbier has reinstated the Harvard Curling Club, which is returning to campus after a 4-year hiatus. With the 2010 Olympics coming up, amateurs and pros alike can have a chance to play this popular – or, let’s face it, odd – sport that we all love to watch on ESPN...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Because We Didn't Have Enough Weird Sports... | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...whether people show up to get a cheap meal or to nurse a hangover, restaurant owners' main concern, according to Sietsema, is that people show up. "Restaurateurs love the meal," he says. "It fills the restaurant up at an odd hour of the week when most people are at home making their own French toast and reading the newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Low Prices and Booze Put Brunch on the Rise | 11/21/2009 | See Source »

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