Similarly, the start-ups today that are really making a difference in changing the world are a bit odd at first.
The 1.5km circuit at Odd Down playing fields has been funded by British Cycling.
The Tamagotchi challenge is to raise a liquid-crystal-display chick that needs to be "fed, " cleaned up and disciplined at odd intervals.
Today 70% of its revenues come from 70-odd branded shops at home.
The 1.5km closed road cycling circuit at Odd Down Playing Fields has been funded by British Cycling.
But the hosts grew in confidence as the game went on and Miller and Barnes were still causing Spurs the odd nervous moment at the back.
The rules and protocol regarding inscriptions are odd and at times, beyond comprehension.
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She notes that in pictures of Thomson in the playoffs, there is some odd bunching of the fabric around the number 3 on the back. (He wore number 23 for the Giants.) Rousseau says that the severe process used to dry-clean jerseys at the time often caused odd distortions at the point where the numbers met the uniforms.
Now, as we know absolutely, Dr. Mann has not been hiding anything at all, not even the odd decline, in his academic work.
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Low rates are motivating issuers to refund higher-yielding debt at record levels, putting cash back in the hands of investors prematurely and at odd times throughout the year.
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Lo and behold, when I hitched the pants at the waist, something seemed odd.
She watched as her grandmother struggled to thread a needle with fingers that were beginning to bend at odd angles, like old trees.
Since we are surrounded by uncertainty, it seems odd that people should be so bad at assessing probabilities.
It has done this with an unusually decentralised management: Xstrata employs only 50-odd people at its main offices in Switzerland and London.
They made their money incrementally, in old-line industries like oil and banking, after a young life spent toiling at odd jobs brought savvy and street smarts.
We jumped from the imminent attack of one fur seal, into the flappers of another, passing en route the odd bull elephant seal weighing in at about four tons.
We ran into bottlenecks in the middle of the countryside that took almost an hour to get past, with little more to look at than grazing sheep and the odd farmhouse.
Jack spent a number of years at odd jobs including as stint as truck driver.
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Second act or not Mandell sure kept odd company at Sky, and the entire thing smelled bad.
They might have been a secret society, meeting at odd hours in hidden nooks around the lake.
In the beginning, very few buyers knew us, so calls at home during odd hours or weekends were rare.
After all, during the boom, free market liberals did permit themselves the odd bit of sneering at regulation-mad countries like France.
Instead, they get the youngsters to help out at food stalls, wash cars or take odd jobs.
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