On the face of it, the idea of working to earn money, only to give it away is an odd one.
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Since government money is so fungible, the distinction is an odd one.
An extremely odd finding but one which could perhaps be explained by the fact that one of the authors is a homeopath.
If you are a regular traveler on a commuter route flown several times a day, you might have noticed an odd trend of cancelling one flight when there are not many people on it and putting them on the next.
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There's the subservient kind, the virtual representative, the odd one with an artistic bent, and even robo-cattle.
When they acquired a crowned head, it was one of an odd kind: a descendant of a freedom-fighter against the king of Spain.
By an odd symmetry, an unexpected change of one vote has now put the Democrats in charge of Senate business, so giving America something closer to the divided government that in 2000, as so often, it seems to have wanted.
So, in an odd experiment, he gave them an artificial one.
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One set of clients, she reports, finally decided if they died together (say, in an auto accident) on a date with an even number, the child would be raised by one set of grandparents, and if they died on an odd-numbered date, by the other.
Steve Jobs is an obsessed genius, and he has the odd quirks of one.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in simple mortgage securitisation and insuring: the only odd one out is AIG and that was an insurance company, not a bank at all.
"He's an odd mixture and hard to read, " says Mr Scott, one of Mr Sata's closest allies, as PF Secretary General.
Still, he is in the odd position of claiming to be an instinctive tax-cutter, while running one of the most punitive regimes for high earners in Europe.
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In an odd way, this is similar to the Boomers who let life click away, one time-clock punch after the other.
When one market maker offered a quote superior to all others, it was in an odd sixteenth only 11.8% of the time.
All well and good, one might say, looking around this shell of a city, but Kapakov believes in an odd way Hurricane Katrina has improved the chances of a project like his.
Now you might think this would be a very odd way to restore confidence in either the finances of an important bank or of a rather important eurozone government: one load of government IOUs of questionable intrinsic value would be swapped for a dubious right to future profits in a bank whose foundations have been crumbling.
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