Word: jokes
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...just really stepped it up, not just breaking the [goals-scored in a season] record. That’s great and all, but defensively she’s become a much stronger player,” Banfield says. “We used to joke that she never went into the defensive zone, and now she’s on the penalty kill doing a tremendous job on the 5-on-3s we’ve had. Her game has gotten tremendously better while she hasn’t lost any of her offensive punch she’s always...
...window. "They are kind of getting in the way of sitting down," Chertoff says. Not that sitting is a priority. Chertoff speed-walks to meetings where he peppers subordinates with pointed questions and blazes through topics he wants to cover. He has a bad habit, aides joke, of running ahead of schedule. "It takes all the energy I have just to keep up," says chief of staff John Woods...
...million in 2000, the Securities and Exchange Commission's haul this year is estimated to be $900 million, paying the salaries of an additional 1,000 accountants, lawyers and economists. No one expects those changes to eliminate corporate fraud entirely. But CEOs may no longer claim, like the old joke about the drunk driver who gets in a car crash, that they were sitting in the backseat. --With reporting by Barbara Kiviat/ New York
...Chemical Society of Japan, which has had just two female board members since its founding in 1878, decided to reserve one of its 26 board seats for a woman. But Japan has a long way to go before it fully utilizes the female half of its national brainpower. "I joke that women scientists have the advantage of a woman's intuition and patience," says Yonezawa. "But, really, being a scientist has nothing to do with being a man or a woman. Women simply haven't been given the chance...
...reporter on her plane likened her to a metronome. Needled at every stop in India and Pakistan about which country would first be allowed to buy F-16 fighters from the U.S., Rice tried to dodge. When all else failed, she dived for cover in a self-deprecatory joke that made reference to the two countries' shared love of cricket--a game she didn't understand but promised she would try to learn. The joke got a little tired after the fourth outing...