The handicap has been run for 79 years, and it's considered a bit of a historical quirk: The horses must carry high weight for a short distance.

Lease Renewals A still bigger hit seems certain in 1994 when, because of a historical quirk, leases covering almost half of the center's 6.2 million square feet come due.

I think it's interesting to see how foreign healthcare admin/paperwork systems operate - there are pluses and minuses - and some historical quirks as well.

Though largely a historical quirk, that has important financial and political implications.

"I guess you'd call it an historical quirk," Lowe commented.

But the man who became his vice president through the same historical quirk not only always wanted the top job, but defined his professional life by it.

Repeatedly Murray says he cares little for such historical quirks.

Mr. Baumol's point is that innovations are no longer left to historical quirk or random feats of genius.

"We are trying to change what we feel is an historical quirk," he said.

Only the legacy of colonialism and the historical quirks of French museum collecting, which Quai Branly's design blithely plays for entertainment.