But purely from a domestic point of view, it seems beyond odd that Warner Bros. seems to keep tempting fate by attempting to open expensive summer movies during a period where audiences have rejected their pictures in favor of the summer kick-off film again and again.
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Eric Schmidt was reportedly talking up the device at a party in LA recently, saying that it would run Android exclusively -- which seems odd given that Google has been working on Chrome (a concept Chrome tablet is pictured above), but then again, we don't attend parties in LA so what do we know?
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It seems odd that the determinedly secular British go for this sort of thing, but they appear to.
Since everyone knows it goes on, it seems odd that the government has never tried to measure it.
Since we are surrounded by uncertainty, it seems odd that people should be so bad at assessing probabilities.
It thus seems odd that nobody had yet done this kind of audit.
At first blush, it seems odd that the bank would be so tight-fisted with such a large amount of money.
After all, it seems odd that smaller retailers are doing so well when supermarkets are barging into their territory and opening mini-stores.
First, it seems odd that Gamasutra at once claims that the decline appears to be real and points out that the launch month comparison is flawed.
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Even so, seven years after the crisis, and with growth in the emerging East Asian countries now strong, it seems odd that investment is still so weak.
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Nevertheless, of the two Beyonce song nominations, it seems odd that " Halo" is getting a Record of the Year nomination while " Single Ladies" is getting Song of the Year.
Considering that interest rates are at very low levels already, it seems rather odd to claim that the economy will suddenly rebound if they get pushed down a bit further.
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On the face of it, it seems odd then that Lee would want to make a martial-arts picture.
So it seems rather odd that they should have signed up for hedge funds which charge annual management fees of 2% plus 20% of any returns.
At first blush, it seems kind of odd that Aramco would even bother with expanding Shaybah right now.
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It seems odd to me that people like to live in this country but do not want to have to pay for the privileges this country provides.
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It seems a bit odd that the events of Heart of the Swarm essentially undo much of what happened in Wings of Liberty as Kerrigan goes back to her old self.
There seems something odd about that, too.
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The odd thing is that he seems to think that this is irrelevant.
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It all seems rather odd, and that may be because investors are currently being motivated by one of the more profound market forces: uncertainty, and that perhaps, indeed, some stocks are being marked up ahead of corporate earnings, and hopes for a market rally anytime after July are a long-shot.
It seems to have realised that it would seem odd indeed if Asian leaders spent much time talking about anything else.
This seems an odd approach, given that citizenship is so easily acquired.
This seems odd, since he admits that you cannot expect to earn returns in Europe that are as high as in Britain.
Which is why it seems supremely odd, and stupid, that no candidate is courting small business.
It seems like an odd conclusion to draw that violent video games impact Americans more than citizens of other nations.
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The odd thing about Djokovic is that he seems to gain energy and confidence as the match goes on, rather than tire.
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What's really odd about this story is that the headline seems to have changed.
Odd then that so much of the work seems to be done by my friends at the Oxford Centre for the Non-Taxation of Business.
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It seems odd, from a policy perspective, that for profit companies and individual taxpayers are essentially subsidizing services for charitable organizations which purport, in part, to be alleviating taxpayer burden.
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