Strangely, though, the smaller offenders such as Portugal (2002) and Greece (2005) were punished.

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Strangely, though the studio lights burned hot as Africa, he wore his shirt buttoned tight about his neck.

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Strangely, though, his popularity is also part of the problem: what Swedes admire in him has seemingly put him out of touch with the mood of the electorate.

ECONOMIST: Sweden

Strangely, though, they had nicknames that evoked either the Broadway characters of Damon Runyon or, more bizarrely, the upper classes of Wodehousian England: Bongbong, Teddyboy, Ting Ting and Ballsy, for example.

ECONOMIST: Corazon Aquino

It all starts in Latin America in the nineteen-twenties, with Irons as Esteban Trueba, a devilish patriarch with a wife (Streep) who is clairvoyant, though strangely unable to see how terrible this movie is going to be.

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Nearly two years later it was ripped down by the new Yugoslav authorities though strangely a large central medallion from the monument, bearing the image of Franz Ferdinand and his wife, survives to this day in the basement of another Sarajevo gallery.

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Corporate America, normally quick to resist government intrusion, has kept strangely silent, as though businessmen are afraid of the consequences of sticking their heads above the parapet.

ECONOMIST: American politics and business

Most of the area had lost power last night, though some apartment buildings and delis remained strangely well-lit.

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Strangely, the name was actually not inspired by Tiger Woods (though he certainly would have benefited from the product).

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It is also strangely stable: most banks in the sample changed their LIBOR estimates fewer than 30 times, even though they could have done so 182 times.

ECONOMIST: Reforming LIBOR