Word: unorthodox
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...Koizumi's handpicked favorite, Fukui led central-bank intervention into uncharted waters. His predecessor frequently claimed impotence, saying there was little a central bank could do to stoke an economy's fires once it had lowered rates to zero. But Fukui stepped up or initiated a series of unorthodox "quantitative easing" programs designed to flood the market with easy money. For example, he more than doubled the target for current-account deposits held by financial institutions and he ramped up the BOJ's purchases of corporate and government bonds. With increased deposits, banks had more money...
...Bush declared himself a different kind of conservative, different from the government-libeling libertarians who seized Congress in the Republican Revolution of 1994. Like TR, he would be a "big government conservative," a believer in "limited but vigorous" federal power. Indeed, Bush conservativism has proved to be so unorthodox as to be not really conservative...
...Still, Jeb's penchant for ideological overreach - especially regarding his obsession with shrinking government - has often backfired. While the state's threadbare child welfare agency is rife with neglect and malfeasance, critics complain that he has handed out millions of dollars in unorthodox tax breaks to companies that donate to private schools. Jeb, a morally conservative Roman Catholic, may eschew his brother's work habits, but he shares his Manichean world view - evidenced last year during his polarizing crusade to keep Terri Schiavo alive...
...immigrant to the U.S. from Israel at the age of 13, Brand continued fencing in his adopted country, competing internationally throughout the 1970s and ’80s. The Crimson, an energetic outfit that Brand tailored together from the nation’s best recruits, has taken to his unorthodox approach to coaching. Brand is a man who frowns on formality.He grew up on a kibbutz, where neighbors casually address each other by their given names. His fencers call him “Peter.”“That’s the way I insist that they...
...campy, knowing take on the themes that made 'The Secret History' and 'Prep' such massive bestsellers, a wry send up of most of the Western canon and, most importantly, a sincere and uniquely twisted look at love, coming of age and identity." Pessl's novel is an unorthodox murder mystery, told in the voice of its erudite heroine...