Word: commas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They wouldn't even agree to changing a comma" of the rent control code, she says. "If only they had done that, we would never have had Question Nine...
...French Defense Minister, who ordered Bachelet home, said the general's opinions were not those of the French government. TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from Paris: "Despite the fact that the French have been basically pro-Serb during the fighting, the government has decided that there is not one comma of the Dayton agreement that is going to be changed. Period. And Bachelet was called back to get that message. By now he has so much carpet between his teeth he won't eat for a year." After his tongue-lashing, Bachelet will most likely be sent back to Sarajevo...
...interesting about "Questions" is that the music starts to soften without mellowing as the CD continues. The first songs are ruled by hard beats, jawbreaker samples and intense bass work. For example, the title of the hard-hitting "Surprise, Surprise" is more than just creative use of a comma. It signifies the look you get on your face when you realize that the lyrics in the song don't even have to be there...
After a set time -- from less than a week to several months, depending on the species -- the larva suddenly stops eating, curls up into a comma and becomes what is called a pupa. Over the next few days, it transforms itself like some buggy version of Terminator 2. Its nerves and muscles melt and reform with astonishing speed until the new adult mosquito sloughs the pupal skin, emerges at the surface and takes off. If one thinks of the humble, fishy mosquito larva as a distinct animal in its own right, then it is one of God's creatures...
...ended this screed by observing, "And so you see, if you make more than $17,500 a year, you will not be in exactly the same tax bracket as H. Ross Perot." And then, because my high school English teacher taught me to write balanced sentences, I added, comma, "who makes more than $1 million a year." I knew Perot was Big Rich and figured it was a safe assertion, but I did not check. Next day the guys on our bidness desk in Dallas called, laughing their asses off. "Ivins," they said (you think I'm making this...