Word: franks
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Which is tougher: the boxing or the chess? I didn't expect that my opponent, Frank "the Antiterror" Stoldt, would be such a good boxer. He really hit me sometimes very hard. I wasn't expecting that...
...surge in the sale of locking gas caps. Stant Manufacturing, a leading gas-cap maker, has already sold more locking caps in the first six months of this year--some 1.3 million--than in all of 2007. Yes, these locks can be jimmied, but New York City locksmith Frank Persico thinks they're still worth it. "You have to put time and effort into actually trying to break the thing open," he says. Which people may do if prices get high enough...
...Barney Frank is on the line. I ask the Massachusetts Democrat, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, if he thinks the housing bill that he and Senator Chris Dodd are on the verge of pushing through Congress will really do much good. Frank first trots out a joke from the late comedian Henny Youngman: "How's your wife?" Answer: "Compared to what?" Then he gets a bit more serious. "Do I think it's gonna have a great impact?" he says. "It's gonna have an impact. I think it will be helpful...
...probably a fair assessment, at least for the centerpiece of the sprawling legislation--a plan to use the insurance guarantees of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to entice lenders to renegotiate up to $300 billion in troubled home loans. It might do some good, and the fact that Frank can't bring himself to say more may have less to do with the legislation itself than with the immensity of the problem Congress is trying to address...
Cambridge Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello told The Chronicle that the victim has since been released from the hospital...