For decades, he had been obsessed with breaking up or privatising Japan's postal system, which sounds a strange obsession but actually lies at the heart of the country's financial and political distortions.
He's happiest inventing eccentric word combinations like a musical linguist toying with strange sounds.
Sounds like a strange thing for a company with that name to do but it does make great sense.
It sounds like a strange argument to lay people like me.
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Before that Browett was at Tesco.com: selling groceries online also sounds like a strange start for someone hired to run a very upscale retail experience like the Apple stores.
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Sounds a little strange, I agree.
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That sounds like a very strange justification for not taking advantage of the opportunities surrounding Apple.
Even still, the content described sounds like a very strange blend.
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As strange as it sounds, a new study suggests the answer is yes.
As strange as it sounds, it was a culture, a culture similar to that of our forefathers.
"It sounds strange, but Microsoft was the answer to a dream, " says Taylor.
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"This sounds to me like someone is trying to wriggle out of what was agreed - a strange thing to do, " he told the Deutschlandfunk radio network.
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It sounds strange when you consider this is fashion we're talking about -- a notoriously stodgy industry predicated upon its historical archives -- but then again, this is the very same designer that teamed up with MakerBot for his fall 2012 collection.
So, as strange as it sounds, if you want to succeed (more) you need to be failing (a lot) more.
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