Eventually, I figured maybe this was just a quirk of management consultants, and let the matter slide.
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But Roenneberg sees this not so much as a by-product of industrial capitalism as a quirk of human physiology.
Through a quirk in the tax code, the federal government subsidizes leveraged takeovers.
At issue in the study is a quirk of billing for lab procedures.
But Soon-Shiong says his drug is more effective than Taxol, precisely because of a quirk in the albumin coat.
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Thanks to a quirk of the system, known as convergence, Welsh spending has been falling compared to levels in England.
By a quirk of fate, the city has staged the games twice at times of austerity (as well as in 1908).
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But in one European region, by a quirk of history, a community with deep local roots lives under Islamic family law.
The postseason for major-college football is controlled by conferences, not the NCAA, a quirk that evolved from the sport's century-old bowl system.
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It's a quirk of the U.S. statistical apparatus that residential rents count for 29% of the measured rate of consumer price inflation.
Under a quirk of American law, mail-order firms are usually exempt from state sales taxes if the buyer is in a different state.
It is a quirk of human behaviour that the more difficult something is to see, the more some people want to see it.
Because it means that strategic thinking and careful resource allocation often go unrewarded, as a quirk of terrain breaks up a carefully planned manoeuvre.
As the year drew to a close, a quirk in the calendar left open the question of how many cars could be counted as sold.
By a quirk of history, the United States rose to great power at the same time multinational corporations were emerging as a decisive force in world affairs.
For it is a quirk of uranium enrichment that to get from 20% to 90% takes less effort than making the lesser-enriched stuff in the first place.
It is a quirk of the Church's practice that Cardinal O'Brien had already tendered his resignation, as he approached his 75th birthday, the official retirement age for bishops.
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Some parents and doctors say children should be given more time to tell if a certain behavior is a quirk of personality or a disorder that needs treatment.
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But for reasons he doesn't quite understand, Cowgill throws with his left hand a quirk that puts him in one of the strangest and most exclusive clubs in baseball.
In part, this is due to a quirk of the rules that oblige Western oil firms to share the crude they produce with state-owned oil firms in many countries.
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By a quirk of historical fate, it was another Frenchman, Joseph Bonaparte, ruler over Madrid in the early 19th Century, who bequeathed to the city several of its more iconic plazas.
In a quirk of timing, the play's multiple references to a new Pope have been given extra resonance by recent events in the Vatican after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation.
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Through a quirk in the tax law, however, there are certain circumstances where a taxpayer can avoid being taxed on what ordinarily would be taxable income by having the payor make the payment directly to a charitable organization.
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Study leader Dr Michael Hastings said in mice who by a quirk of genetics had a 20-hr body clock, they were able to reset the clock to 24 hours by using known compounds that are known to slow down the action of cAMP.
They soon noticed a quirk in the Nasdaq software: If they were to place a SOES bid that said "I'll buy at the offer or up to 20% over it, " their order would automatically take precedence over all other market orders and would give them an advantage in a rising market.
While a handful of smaller U.S. exchanges exist today, they tend to specialize in options, and, notably in the case of the American Stock Exchange, exchange-traded funds. (See story, p. 47.) A quirk in a 1975 U.S. securities law has allowed the regional markets to trade shares listed on the New York and American exchanges in a way that is attractive to big brokerage houses, keeping the smaller bourses alive on life support.
Louisiana's deal, which had to do with a funding quirk as a result of Hurricane Katrina, gets to stay.
Xu's trick: a genetic quirk called a transposon--a so-called jumping gene--that his team stole from the genome of the cabbage looper moth.
However, to a scout, failure to identify a single quirk or glitch could lead to a costly error and possible job termination.
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