Word: punched
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Finally, Scott Reed, the Dole campaign manager, is trying to recruit a new messagemeister and some Designated Thinkers who can punch up Dole's listless stump speech. Reed has been trying to improve it since September, but has been unable to find the right person for the job. Several of the people Reed has sounded out for help recently are holding out--for Powell. And Dole insiders wonder whether Dole would even listen to anyone new. As a senior adviser put it, in the classic campaign argot of nouns-as-verbs: "What good is a guru Dole isn't going...
...Johnson & Johnson/Merck, producer of Pepcid, beat SmithKline to the punch. It won FDA approval of its over-the-counter version, Pepcid AC, and began marketing it in June. Between its introduction and August, when Tagamet HB first appeared in pharmacies, Pepcid AC gained a 22% share of the entire antacid market. "Pepcid had a window of opportunity, and it exploited it well in the marketplace," says Silvermine Consulting's Kelly. "That's an amazing accomplishment." Amazing, and expensive. J&J/Merck and SmithKline are each spending some $100 million in marketing campaigns for their new acid blockers...
...Crimson has arguably the best 1-2-3 running back punch in the league: Eion Hu, Kweli Thompson and Troy Jones. Harvard just never throws the combination. The team does not have a two-back proset offense, which would allow Hu and Thompson to appear in tandem. While the Harvard coaching staff may be reluctant to utilize Hu as a lead blocker lest he be injured, rumor is that Hu outbenches most of the offensive line...
...adding to the don't-worry-we-know-what-we're-doing defense, suggested that when students have no knowledge that the exam will be repeated, "seeing the test form a second time does not guarantee a score increase." (Neither does bringing a pocket dictionary.) Gams added a statistical punch to her rationale, explaining that, "On average, students who repeat the same test form tend to get one more verbal and/or one more math question correct than if they had repeated with a different form...
...novel's other plot line: Hester's difficulty with her love child Pearl. But this Hester is readier to be martyr and lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...