Word: nose
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With his sheath of white hair, his bulbous nose and whalelike body, Tip O'Neill is a caricaturist's dream. Over the past decade, cartoonists have made the Speaker of the House almost as familiar an American icon as Uncle Sam. Though Republicans depicted Democrat O'Neill, 73, as the incarnation of bloated liberalism, the Speaker actually stands for something both larger and smaller: the beliefs that Government should help remedy the inequities of society and that a politician should help those in his own backyard. "All politics is local," O'Neill liked to say; he built his career around...
...Barr virus has been associated with a couple of types of cancer. In Central Africa and New Guinea, it has been linked to Burkitt's lymphoma, an immune-cell cancer that primarily strikes children. In southern China, the virus plays a role in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat that afflicts more than 50,000 people a year. Retroviruses are known to cause cancer in a wide range of animals, from mice to chickens. In the early 1980s, Dr. Robert Gallo and his co-workers, as well as a group of Japanese researchers, showed for the first...
...owners may initially leave facilities and work forces untouched. In fact, GM last week announced plans to hire immediately 200 new workers for the launch of an upcoming model. But that often radically changes later. In Port Elizabeth, which once styled itself the "Detroit of South Africa," employment nose- dived in 1985 when Ford sold its majority share to local owners, who then shifted operations to Pretoria. Last week many Port Elizabethans doubted GM's assurances that no jobs will be lost when the automaker leaves. Like American workers whose firms have been swallowed up in mergers, white South Africans...
...continued: "Then Bill said 'Nick Branca, please stand!' I was really happy because I thought that meant I had not won. I was jumping around saying 'Kyle [Enright, the third freshman on the couch], it's you! It's you!' Then Bill said 'Nick, for shooting vodka through your nose, for saying 'I'm not a 'shmen' when you obviously are, for making me miss the baseball game, you are...' I screamed 'NOT', but he said 'ARE' Shmen of the Year...
Brown (3-3) opened the scoring on a 78-yard drive capped by a 1-yard plunge into the end zone by Lane Wood. On Brown's next possession, the Holy Cross nose guard, Andy Martin sacked Brown's Mark Donovan in the end zone for a safety...