To add to this inanity, this process can be attempted only in even-numbered years.

ECONOMIST: Your health! (in small doses only)

East division teams will host five conference games during even-numbered years starting in 2016, with West teams hosting five in odd-numbered seasons.

WSJ: Big Ten Conferences Changes "Legends" and "Leaders" to "East" and "West'

Obviously off-year races, as you know, Chuck, are -- and special elections are a far different breed than regularly scheduled elections on every other -- or in even-numbered years.

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It would take another three years before the addition of Chivas USA in Los Angeles and Real Salt Lake took the league back to an even dozen but still the pessimists out-numbered the optimists.

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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.

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