So, how odd to find a compelling leadership presence in full-bloom on a grassy-field in Queens.
At its launch, I wrote how odd it was to diss women in ads, even though the target demographic was men.
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Consider how odd this logic is in the current political environment.
How odd, then, that trade-union influence has rarely been so strong.
How odd it is, Peter mused, that the U.S. is moving sharply away from libertarianism and toward statism, yet the most optimistic investors tend to be supply-siders and libertarians!
How odd that after decades of obsessing over all the goods the Japanese wanted to sell to America, the next trade sticking point could turn out to be something they want to buy.
After 20 years in professional baseball alongside Rivera and Jorge Posada as members of the "Core Four" that were the key to so much Yankee success, Pettitte and Jeter both stressed how odd and empty it will be to see the Yankees without Rivera.
In a subtle send-up of how very odd human beings can be, Mr Yehoshua evokes thoughts of fate, death and how people come to feel that they belong.
That's definitely odd, considering how big a bet Motorola seemed to be placing on Blur as its handset differentiator -- and doubly odd since the HTC Hero Eric Schmidt was holding at the same photo op was running Sense on top of Android.
No, the odd thing was how few businesspeople I talked to expressed enthusiasm for Mitt Romney.
The odd thing is how many market professionals will admit in private that this frenzy too is a bubble.
Dr Cole suspects this could help explain not only why the lonely are iller, but how, in evolutionary terms, this odd state of affairs has come about.
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This fact seems odd to me, given how horrible Bernanke has proven at analyzing economic conditions in the past and how utterly wrong or disingenuous he seems to be about inflation these days.
In an odd way, the outage highlights just how important a role AWS now plays in the Internet content and commerce segments.
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Odd, though, when one considers how inevitable it was.
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The odd thing about this adjustment, however, is how unbalanced it has been.
This time around, not having the auteur himself providing direction on how to interpret and react to his own passing feels distinctly odd.
Jay Greene presents an odd conundrum with his latest book, a survey of how large household brands integrate design principles into their products.
Not entirely outside the realm of possibility, but given how flat the market for PDAs is these days it seems like a really odd time for Apple to be diving in.
Odd that no one talking about thalidomide and the FDA ever mentions how long ago the thalidomide tragedy occurred, or how different everything is now, especially with respect to it being a quite useful drug.
Given all that, and how much more exam-centred pupils and teachers have become, it would be odd if results did not improve.
Another one of the touted features of the iRiver H10 is its photo storage and display capability, which makes it odd than in its 34-page manual iRiver says absolutely nothing about how to actually get the photos onto the unit.
Now the odd thing, which I didn't realise until recently, is quite how "Heath-Robinsonesque" the FPC's powers are.
What was odd, as he posted his irregular blogs about his latest adventure, was how much fear he felt this time.
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The supply response (will people bother to work if you tax them too highly?), the avoidance response (how much will people fiddle their taxes?) and the bargaining response (a slightly odd thing that need not concern us here).
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But what is odd about the behaviour of the finance ministers is that they did not apparently see how damaging their actions would be in relation to the perceived ability of the eurozone to thrive and survive.
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