This is very odd indeed when you see what a dramatic effect it has on colouration.

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You know when I came, became leader of the Labour Party, I mean all this seems very odd now, but when I became leader of the Labour Party we got 90 per cent of our money off the trade unions - and that was a huge point of criticism.

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Theorists of such a conspiracy can point to the release this week of a very odd Cain campaign video.

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This can create the very odd situation for some wealthy filers whose income composed primarily of capital gains and qualified dividends are taxed at a rate of only 15% on their Federal return and 9.55% (or more) on their state.

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Now you might think this would be a very odd way to restore confidence in either the finances of an important bank or of a rather important eurozone government: one load of government IOUs of questionable intrinsic value would be swapped for a dubious right to future profits in a bank whose foundations have been crumbling.

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This really is rather odd: especially as Jony Ives is now Sir Jony, a Knight of that very British Empire.

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But it was very odd to see the reaction of the audience, which seemed to treat the collection of this tax as an absurd idea.

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Which is very odd indeed as there was several years of prior art, including academic journal articles predicting that this alloy would be good for use in sporting goods.

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