Word: quirks
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...boisterous games [e.g. dodge ball with the living room couch] in the Yard, in corridors, etc." Dragged in front of the College's disciplinary Administrative Board, you will be asked to explain everything, from the guy in the lampshade to the beer consumed by underage revelers. In a mysterious quirk in the system, your senior adviser will serve as both prosecutor, presenting evidence, and defense attorney, arguing on behalf of whatever good qualities you have displayed...
...Nicklaus and Lee Trevino were Opens; Sam Snead never did win one. "I can't make it happen," Watson eventually concluded, after painful failures. "I have to let it happen." When it did, the release it brought him was something to see. "If you're there by quirk or luck," Watson says, "you're not nervous the same way you are when you are playing well and know you can win. Then you are really nervous...
Each spring when the snows melt in the Urals and the icy waters come cascading down the mountains that divide the U.S.S.R. into its European and Asian halves, the Kremlin's planners are painfully reminded of their country's great geographical "mistake." By a quirk of nature, several of the Soviet Union's great rivers flow north, spilling into the Arctic Ocean, while to the south the steppes of Central Asia remain parched and sun-bleached, thirsting for fresh water...
Basically, Drysdale's traders, headed by President Richard Taaffe and Chairman David Heuwetter, used an accounting quirk in the way Treasury securities are valued in so-called repurchase deals. These are short-term transactions in which a bank or brokerage house raises cash by selling a Treasury security to another dealer on a promise to buy it back when the deal expires. Since typical repos last for only a few days, traders normally do not take account of the accrued interest on a bond, bill or note when valuing it in the transaction. Instead, when the interest is paid...
...discouraging that the organization of the referendum was, by default, left to essentially one student: Constitutional Convention Chairman Leonard T. Mendonca '83. Because of multiple concerns of the referendum which Mendonca had to plan and coordinate with the Faculty, it is more understandable that the election had a quirk. Even more amazing is the rapid ascendancy of L. Gerome Smith '84 to a position of leadership. After collecting about 100 signatures at a couple of meals. Smith complained to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III about the confusion stemming from the lack of publicity concerning the turnout opponent...