Passengers will be able to leap on and off the city's 500-odd old-fashioned buses at least until a European directive on accessibility comes into force in (gasp) 2016.
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If it seems odd to base medical strategy on 90-year-old newspapers, the approach is increasingly popular.
As you can imagine, with this much at stake, even old Mother Nature has the odd data-set you can refer to.
It was an odd combination of elegant old wooden buildings and new three-story reinforced-concrete buildings.
Their 17-year-old son has given up school to find odd jobs to sustain the family.
In an odd three-degrees-of-separation, White's old job as head of equity capital markets at Credit Suisse was reclaimed by Ernesto Cruz, who is married to Zoe Cruz , the former head of fixed income at Morgan Stanley whose promotion to co-president of the firm in March helped precipitate the management turmoil.
If this is the Portland version of "The Odd Couple, " Mr. Zehetbauer, a 52-year-old woodworker and partner in a furniture company, would be the "Felix" character, as he pays meticulous attention to details.
Defaced by modern shopping malls, it pours into six old streets where stunning neo-classical mansions mix with an odd bunch of Soviet apartment blocks.
The star is Hiroyuki Nakajima, a power-hitting 29-year-old shortstop for the Seibu Lions, who seems to be an odd fit for the Yankees.
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They made their money incrementally, in old-line industries like oil and banking, after a young life spent toiling at odd jobs brought savvy and street smarts.
This may sound odd (a theory of mind among hominids?), but as Pagel notes, even two-year-old babies have a greater understanding of what other humans believe than even adult apes do.
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