Word: commas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Side: I could already bench press four Webster's International dictionaries. But there were too many guys who were stronger, yet they didn't seem to be working out any harder. And they were racking up the bylines. I'm talking about economics writers who couldn't lift a comma. What were they doing? Hey, I am a reporter, right? A couple of phone calls later and I got it figured. They were juiced, in capital letters. I make the connection: the source is a beat-up wire service guy who spent too much time in South America...
...these puma or tiger paws ironed on, on the back there’s no punctuation...it’s a travesty to fashion. There’s no punctuation whatsoever; the last line [on the back] says “We ready are you,” no comma or anything.”Hopkins, meanwhile, was not afraid to wear the yellow disaster for the first full week of the year, on a bet from Breaux.Fashion sense will be more necessary when Hopkins finally leads his “band,” the “Washboard...
...that minuscule silhouette in the middle distance on a tiny elephant, the one dwarfed by the coiling surf of gray-brown cloud above his head? As the great storm explodes across the canvas, devouring the sickly yellow coin of the sun, the mighty general is just a comma in the larger scheme. This isn't merely history taking place in a landscape. It's landscape as the judgment of history...
...Middle East. But diplomacy isn't a spigot you turn on and off; it is a tepid stream of meetings and consultations. It is not for those with attention-deficit disorder; it requires patient, intensive listening to oft-repeated positions and grievances, the eternal search for a comma that will appease both sides. For that reason alone, it would be wonderful to have a President with lots of stamps in his or her passport or a President who speaks a foreign language fluently or has lived overseas or has spent time in the military or in negotiations with foreign leaders...
...David Cameron: We have. [Senator] John McCain came to our conference and I admire him a great deal. Lots of things we won't agree about on every dot and comma - our approach to Iraq is probably quite different. The Conservative Party has also always had a number of good contacts with the Democrats, and we should have contacts with both sides but obviously the Republicans are our sister party. We're together in the International Democratic Union and other bodies and there are good and strong ties there...