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Growing up in the Iowa farm belt, Dr. Loren Olson always thought of himself as "heterosexual, with a little quirk. "

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said the $215 million make over was "the best birthday present" the city could give its centrepiece.

Sometimes I said the words out of context to see if by deflection, some quirk of physics, the meaning would suddenly come to me.

Even if the Greenstein and Forman study is just a quirk, which I suspect is not the case, it still points to an interesting issue.

The same irrational quirk is now playing out in the U. S. housing market.

Everything from the moment they cross their arms to the quirk of their eyebrow, your characters are expressing themselves to you.

Despite the underlying inflation risks, a statistical quirk may push core inflation down in the coming months.

Quirk of the parliamentary system though it may be, Italian politics appears to be pretty forgiving to those with economic black marks.

Experts say the rare phenomenon is just a quirk of nature and can occur if the chicken receives a shock during egg production.

He had a strange quirk of addressing his wife Mrs. Smith.

But the loss of such a distinctive design quirk means the Impreza loses some of its character.

"She fell and landed on her backside, " said Courtney Mikolaj of the Quirk Law Firm in Ventura, California, which is representing her.

In more than 20 years of research, she's discovered that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk.

The standard theory of bad moods is rooted in a psychological quirk known as ego depletion.

In an odd quirk, new research suggests the commission's plans could benefit those countries most opposed to it.

In a revealing quirk of the English language, to ask the question is to level an accusation at the same time.

The next day I was reminded of another little French cultural quirk: their English really isn't that good.

Executive quirk: Raised the legs of his desk to let him work and use his computer standing up.

In this quirk of the human mind, one powerful impression spills over onto our other judgments of a situation.

Either way, this looks to be a quirk of biology, not a concertedevolution by a plant disease to infect animals.

Suppose you discover that there is a quirk with the payroll system, where a new employee cannot be added until an office space is assigned.

Pressured? Rushed? You'll spend more recklessly. Infomercials are designed to take advantage of this brain quirk.

DIFFERENCES invites you to reflect on this strange quirk in relating, and suggests another way to view differences in your relationship.

By a quirk of fate, the couple took the same flight after years of being apart.

But a quirk in the Miami-Dade County laws prohibits him from moving.

It also reflects a little-known quirk of Ms Schapiro's past: she studied social anthropology as an undergraduate.

On top of that weirdness, magnetars have the added quirk of possessing extremely strong magnetic fields.

A quirk in how China calculates quotas means that two tons of quota must be used to export a ton of rare earths for some alloys.

It found that people with a "genetic quirk" drank more sugary drinks, ate more sweets, and consumed more calories from the extra sugar.

Yet thanks to a quirk of law, talk of default is not confined to the European side of the Atlantic.

During the weeklong conference here, several other major phone makers have introduced devices with one quirk or another.

Both Ranieri and Grant starting their Chelsea managerial careers with a visit to Old Trafford, strange quirk of fate.

Still, the practice is not entirely the product of a psychological quirk.

The lower volumes have been felt across the industry, Mr. Quirk said.

Otherwise, this may simply be a charming quirk (maybe not so charming to your neighbor).

Temperature in a gas can reach below absolute zero thanks to a quirk of quantum physics.

So what quirk of human nature is standing in our way, and what might insurers (and governments) do to nudge us in a more sensible direction?

A quirk in the system could cast doubt over the poll's overall fairness.

Scientists have discovered a biological quirk in bottlenose dolphins that could lead to a treatment for late-onset diabetes in humans.

By a quirk of fate, he again axon, then with eye diseases and propensity for his failure.

IF A bank posts record results during the worst quarter in living memory for financial markets, it could be a quirk.

China's divorce law includes a tricky little quirk -- if your spouse owns property before your marriage, it is not common property.

The most annoying quirk of his is wearing a cap all the time.

But in one European region, by a quirk of history, a community with deep local roots lives under Islamic family law.

Asset managers have never faced such stiff competition, says Ben Phillips, partner of Casey Quirk, a US consultancy.

The code in Listing 6 reflects one other rather subtle interface quirk; the menu count must be cached in advance.

A quirk of light causes a strange luminescence in its dark recesses, and as we emerge someone tolls the bell.

Almost every big European country also has some kind of quirk for which it wants special dispensation.

The miserable economic track record is, in part, a quirk of timing.

A quirk of human psychology could help to explain these persistent underestimates.

Who could forget the unique qualities of Japanese snow, a happy quirk of nature that blocked the import of foreign skis?

Perhaps a coworker often annoys you with some minor habit or quirk, which triggers a downward spiral.

'We talk to a lot of people, ' said Mr. Quirk, a former floor trader. 'They're all waiting for the dust to clear. '

Fowler had suspected that the asymmetry in people came from a quirk of limiting the number of friends in the study.

Confirmations illustrate an interesting quirk of human behavior: They only work when they are unexpected.

The latest quirk to be examined is momentum, or the tendency for stocks that did well in the past to do well in the future.

An individual characteristic; a quirk.

By a quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.

Quirk, Paul. "Policy Making in the Contemporary Congress. " Chap. 9 in Landy & Levin, The New Politics of Public Policy, 1995.

It can be regarded as merely a mathematical quirk of the theory of weak interactions.

Sure, some may sound quirk, but they each are effective.

By some quirk of fate the two of us where on the same train.

He can only smile when the wife of an embezzler says: "Well, he's a very fine man except for that one quirk. "

The compensation issue in some ways echoed Jobs' parking quirk.

Ironically, another quirk comes to our help here.

The third quirk of credit derivatives is that they allow corporate bonds tobe sliced and diced on the basis of risk.

To some degree these statistics are a quirk of the calendar, based on when the 10-year period starts and finishes.

It's simply a quirk of nature, man.

Thispartly reflects today's benign economic conditions (few companies have gone bust), but also relates to the second quirk in the market.

Quirk, B. K. (2008). Landsat 5: Celebrating 25 Years. Earth Imaging Journal. 5(6), 12-14.

The first argument is that the anomaly is a statistical quirk obtained by torturing the data;

"The reason why [regular verbs] are called regular is that we can predict what all the other three forms are" (Randolph Quirk)

This is a quirk of fate