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In retrospect it seems odd and, of course, tragic that in those days, just after World War II, while much of the rest of the world was at least tentatively coming to grips with the embarrassing inequities of racism and colonialism, the Afrikaners were moving their country headlong in the opposite direction.
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And what did the company see in a property portfolio that includes scores of apartments, a golf course and the odd castle?
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Of course, it does seem a little odd to create a tax bracket solely for a group of people who could fit onto the love boat (with plenty of room left over for a few of the hoi polloi).
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He worked odd jobs, as a cart boy at a golf course, a ski-lift operator and a janitor (he uses his janitor ID as his Twitter avatar).
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Of course, we continually prefer living in the modern, complete with the odd pang of nostalgia.
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Which does mean of course that an attempt to model the economy as something either in or approaching equilibrium is really rather odd.
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Almost as odd is that it is an "initial modelling result", with a promise to publish more material in due course, once it has crunched through some more numbers.
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