Lookalikes have long profited off the famous people they, through some odd quirk of DNA, resemble.
Eventually, I figured maybe this was just a quirk of management consultants, and let the matter slide.
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But Roenneberg sees this not so much as a by-product of industrial capitalism as a quirk of human physiology.
At issue in the study is a quirk of billing for lab procedures.
Thanks to a quirk of the system, known as convergence, Welsh spending has been falling compared to levels in England.
By a quirk of fate, the city has staged the games twice at times of austerity (as well as in 1908).
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But in one European region, by a quirk of history, a community with deep local roots lives under Islamic family law.
It's a quirk of the U.S. statistical apparatus that residential rents count for 29% of the measured rate of consumer price inflation.
Under a quirk of American law, mail-order firms are usually exempt from state sales taxes if the buyer is in a different state.
Ayse Saygin, professor at the University of California, San Diego, is using cutting-edge brain science to understand this strange quirk of human nature.
It is a quirk of human behaviour that the more difficult something is to see, the more some people want to see it.
The study also revealed a curious quirk of Twitter users: those who are further apart seem to be sending more messages to each other.
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One other quirk of the bonds: The tobacco settlement revenues needed to service them are not fixed but linked to tobacco company shipment volumes.
Because it means that strategic thinking and careful resource allocation often go unrewarded, as a quirk of terrain breaks up a carefully planned manoeuvre.
By a quirk of history, the United States rose to great power at the same time multinational corporations were emerging as a decisive force in world affairs.
The quirk of this movie is that, for all its pretensions to topical soothsaying and its sombre machinations of plot, it remains, in essence, a love story.
For it is a quirk of uranium enrichment that to get from 20% to 90% takes less effort than making the lesser-enriched stuff in the first place.
It is a quirk of the Church's practice that Cardinal O'Brien had already tendered his resignation, as he approached his 75th birthday, the official retirement age for bishops.
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Some parents and doctors say children should be given more time to tell if a certain behavior is a quirk of personality or a disorder that needs treatment.
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In part, this is due to a quirk of the rules that oblige Western oil firms to share the crude they produce with state-owned oil firms in many countries.
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Of course, Americans may confound skeptics again by continuing to shop, and many economists don't think stronger growth recently can be dismissed as a mere quirk of the inventory cycle.
By a quirk of historical fate, it was another Frenchman, Joseph Bonaparte, ruler over Madrid in the early 19th Century, who bequeathed to the city several of its more iconic plazas.
In a quirk of timing, the play's multiple references to a new Pope have been given extra resonance by recent events in the Vatican after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation.
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The religious right is divided over its relationship with mainstream politics, reliving, in a peculiar quirk of cultural history, the divisions that tore apart the radical student movement in the late 1960s.
I've been trying to find out just what it is about pregnancy that causes all these symptoms to disappear and whether this quirk of nature could really be turned into the reality of a treatment.
He believes this quirk of our consciousness imbues our lives with a sense of cosmic significance that over the course of history has resulted in a species that works harder not just to survive but to flourish and thrive.
Study leader Dr Michael Hastings said in mice who by a quirk of genetics had a 20-hr body clock, they were able to reset the clock to 24 hours by using known compounds that are known to slow down the action of cAMP.
More specifically, in what can only be called a strange quirk of timing, the question is whether the country would be better off if the Fed had a single mandate of fighting inflation as does the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
When asked about the scheduling quirk, most of the people involved reacted with bemused indifference.
The aesthetic of alldressedup is feminine and urban with a smidge of quirk.
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