Word: weirdness
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...strongest crosscurrents, however, cut across the whole economy. "Americans have to cope with job change on a scale never before seen in this country," says Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. The economy, in fact, has accomplished the weird feat of combining a fairly brisk pace of job creation with a record rate of layoffs. Reich notes that job creation for the past six months has averaged 200,000 a month. But the increase over the past three years is about a third below the pace of earlier recoveries. Much worse, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based outplacement firm, counted...
...know, the thing that was so weird about last weekend is that we won that last game," captain Mike Giardi said. I think it shows both what a gutsy team we have, and what we can do if we relax...
...This whole season has been a little weird," Singh said. "We've played really inconsistent--we've had some very good performances and some pretty bad ones. It's hard to tell how we are going to play on any given...
...Sunday we bough a bag of tomatoes. On Wednesday e rediscovered them in a dark corner of the kitchen, dribbling weird liquids and seething with resentment like fat, red, neglected infants. We took them out of the bag to breathe, arranged them lovingly on the countertop, and immediately forgot them again. By Friday they were soft and bloated, and some had fuzzy black implosions in their yellowing skins...
...love the Beastie Boys. I once even had a dream, after seeing them live, that I was hanging out with Mike D. They're a bunch of East Coast Jewish boys who have turned their lives into a weird fantasy, and they know it. They date movie stars. They have their own recording studio in California, with a skating ramp and a basketball hoop. They just started their won record label. They have a fanzine, except that since they're big stars, it looks a real magazine. When they get interviewed they point out all of these things...