Word: unorthodox
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...Bloomberg took a rather unorthodox path to City Hall, spending more than $69 million of his own money to sweep aside Mark Green, the career politician and erstwhile frontrunner who finally couldn't keep up with his rival's cash flow - or his promises of economic recovery. Green was not on hand for Tuesday's festivities...
Harvard had some trouble initially with the Crusaders’ unorthodox match-up zone defense, but seemed to solve it eventually, leading to some open looks that just didn’t fall...
...seem obsessed with making comfortable, bite-sized pop confections . Yet the beats are nearly buried under lush tapestries of melody and the human voice: sweet guitars, soaring strings, flutes and whistles, tinkling piano keys, sung choruses, beatbox, random chatter. Their incredible prowess at arranging complex layers of unorthodox and delightful sound-bites with satisfying house and breakbeats amounts to amazingly compelling dance music. With a better command of both funk and melody than your average Tall Paul van Oakendyk, one wishes the Avalanches would take over Ibiza with an army of dusty records and their brand of sun-drenched bliss...
...fast-spreading sect named Lightning from the East is alarming Christian communities across China by winning large numbers of converts to its unorthodox tenets, often by abducting potential believers. Its followers, who say they number 300,000 but whom observers measure in the tens of thousands, believe that Jesus has returned as a plain-looking, 30-year-old Chinese woman who lives in hiding and has never been photographed. They credit her with composing a third testament to the Bible, writing enough hymns to fill 10 CDs and teaching that Christians who join her will ascend to heaven...
...With 14 generic companies lined up to start making generic Glucophage, consumers stand to benefit greatly if BMS is not successful with its unorthodox interpretation of FDA rules. Analysts believe the price of the product, whose generic name is metformin, would plummet immediately by at least 30%, with greater price cuts as time passed...