Word: weirdness
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...what can be done.” Outrage. Does he realize that the five-page paper is due three days before my THESIS?!? Unbelievable, all this for a stupid Core that I should have taken instead of that weird freshman seminar about aliens. Does he know I won’t be going to class that month, that I’ll be sleep-deprived, food-deprived, liiiiiiiiife-deprived and therefore unable (read: unwilling) to function in the academic world...
...weird thing,” she confides, “is that you look forward to things like going to CVS for free time...
Immediate reaction to housing assignment: We hated hearing about Mather. We chose to be in DeWolfe our sophomore year. But I love it now. There are so many weird intersections of planes...
When Ralph Nader sees eye-to-eye with Merrill Lynch, something mighty weird is going on. For centuries, investors demanded cash dividends as current compensation for the risk of a future loss. But then, in the heat of the 1990s bull market, many managements, especially at tech firms, tried a new line: Don't ask us to pay cash dividends, because we can maximize your returns by reinvesting every penny in our growing businesses. And if you wait to take your profits as long-term capital gains, argued these managements, you'll pay less in taxes than you would...
Breece: He’s also the member of a corporation. He has been under a lot of pressure especially if we place this entire moment historically—it’s weird to consider yourself as a part of an historical moment, but I think the events of September 11 kind of forced us to. President Summers, and I care not to speculate which way, seems to have been under a lot of pressure to accommodate the faculty in certain ways. He certainly called faculty members in, had meetings with departments telling them they needed to be more...