These factors help explain why the first wave of takeovers abroad by Indian firms, between 2004 and 2008, took such a peculiar form (see table).

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Steve has a tall, peculiar wife (Anjelica Huston) and an even taller and more peculiar rival (Jeff Goldblum).

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The second aspect of investment risk, peculiar to 401(k)s, is the risk that your employer makes a bad choice in determining what investment alternatives to offer employee participants in the plan.

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The peculiar result is a largely left-wing movement fighting hard (alongside some corporate billionaires) to create a multinational corporation and a largely conservative movement fighting to stop the advance of capitalism and the private sector.

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Instead, official Washington is obsessing about a peculiar finding last week by the Defense Department's Inspector General (IG).

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Peculiar to Shia Islam, the sigeh is a contract between a man (who can be married) and a woman (who cannot she is usually divorced) for a union with a defined time limit, perhaps 99 years, perhaps 30 minutes.

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It was a peculiar business strategy to say the least, as if Keating sought to sabotage himself (and his partners) for straying too far into capitalism.

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And that, according to Hong Kong's financial-market regulator, led to a set of occurrences that are at the very least peculiar and possibly (depending on an unfolding court case) illegal.

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They also bear witness to the peculiar sexual arrangements in the house, in which Roosevelt (Bill Murray), carried from room to room by a servant, appears to be having relations with his secretary, Missy LeHand (Elizabeth Marvel), and also with his distant cousin Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney).

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