Word: knighting
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...would be a wonderful, good deed if you would all forgive me so that I can go back to college to finish my studies in child psychology." DAWNETTE KNIGHT, in a letter of apology to Catherine Zeta-Jones, after being charged with stalking and threatening the film star
...prevent heart attacks and stroke. Says Dr. Cary Gross, assistant professor of medicine at Yale: "You can't tell doctors never to try anything except what's been tested." Since 1998, the number of off-label prescriptions has nearly doubled, to around 115 million, according to an analysis by Knight Ridder Newspapers...
...trainee uniform (gray T shirt, black cargo pants, black boots), strapped my leather holster to my side and listened to the first instructor tell the class, "You've got to have a winning mentality. You have to believe you're Superman. Or maybe the Black Knight in Monty Python." I laughed, but my classmates didn't; they just nodded in silent agreement...
...British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline cut the pay package of CEO Jean-Pierre Garnier last December after shareholders voted it down at the annual meeting. (He still earned $5 million last year in salary and bonus, a 14% raise.) Even at Ahold, which was in need of a white knight following an accounting scandal last year, the new CEO, Anders Moberg, faced a storm of criticism over his guaranteed $1.68 million bonus for each of his first two years. That was on top of a $1.68 million salary and stock options as well as a hefty exit package. Moberg, a Swede...
...rolled out separate, free tabloids to appeal to that missing demographic. Some, like the Washington Post Co.'s Express, appear daily and are newsy, boiled-down versions of the broadsheet. Others are weekly and focus more on entertainment and lifestyle, like Gannett's CiN Weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Knight-Ridder's StreetMiami, produced by the Miami Herald...