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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The Swiss headed off unwelcome inquiries by making it illegal for banks and their employees to provide information about their clients' financial affairs, and soon found that the anonymity of a numbered Swiss bank account attracted other foreigners too.

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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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The construction site consists of tidy stacks of flat-packed, prefabricated wall units, roof panels and other jumbo components trucked from Michigan and labeled and numbered like parts for a giant Ikea Akurum cabinet.

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In other words it's a heckuva a lot easier to grow a business when its revenues are numbered in the millions or even billions rather than in the tens of billions.

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At one point the striking cricketers numbered 15 players, but that soon dwindled as some players returned to the fold, and other left for careers outside the country.

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