Word: unorthodox
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...York correspondent Adam Cohen traced DreamWorks' boldly unorthodox web of financing, from Wall Street, where Chemical Bank extended a $1 billion line of credit, to the West Coast, where the California Public Employees Retirement System was considering an investment. The closest Cohen--"a movie fan but a Hollywood rube"--had ever come to a movie studio was when he worked as a civil rights lawyer in Lafayette, Alabama, which had been used as a location for Mississippi Burning. Now here he was, having lunch with Ressner and the DreamWorks principals on the Universal...
Perhaps we would be more enlightened about the position of the United Ministry by redirecting our attention to Webster's second definition for cult: "a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious." The factor that currently differentiates the religious groups recognized by the Ministry from cults is that the groups have been around for a while--long enough, at least, not to disturb the current theological balance of power...
Epps, a member of the advisory group, said onMonday that he would be willing to appoint someone"quite unorthodox...in the sense of policebureaucracy...
...stress above all [finding] some-one who isvery accessible to students and who likes workingwith them and can think of new ways to involvethem in the department," Epps said. "I am willingto appoint someone quite unorthodox...in the senseof police bureaucracy...
...story of Watergate didn't fall into their laps; they had to hunt for it in some places that were perhaps before perceived as private. Their methods were unorthodox, but not necessarily unprincipled. They discovered and revealed information that could have been harmful to the Post's readers had it remained secret...