Word: punched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When people discuss sports today, the actual physical actions--hitting the ball, swinging the bat, throwing a punch--are often noticeably absent from conversation...
Though not zany, Chistoph H. Luthy, Lowell House resident tutor in the History of Science, is "always looking for the intellectual punch line," in the words of Henry B. Nguyen '95. Luthy calls his native Switzerland an "uncharismatic nation," but he is definitely not devoid of charisma. "H genuinely cares for his tutees and their well-being," says Rene Reyes '95, "and he's done things well beyond the call of duty." In fact, when Reyes couldn't afford the flight home to Texas over Spring break his sophomore year, Luthy arranged for him to fly home in the plane...
...situation was further complicated when Moscow's Pushkin Museum beat the Hermitage to the punch by setting up in February a hastier and less focused show of Impressionist paintings, together with some older ones by Goya, El Greco and others. Its director, Irina Antonova, a cultural bureaucrat in the traditional Soviet style, made no suggestion that these works were going anywhere after the show-least of all to Germany. "Soviet troops saved these artworks, while the fascists wrecked ours," she declared at a press conference. "We deserve some form of compensation...
...results are a dramatic improvement over conditions just four years ago. During the Gulf War, for example, ground commanders lacked timely satellite photos to prepare for combat because the four computer systems handling the pictures couldn't talk to one another. Today Intelink users can punch up on their computers the most recent satellite photos, as well as thousands of pages of classified reports from various intelligence agencies. White House aides monitoring the Chechnya crisis were able to dial into Intelink for daily CIA updates on the civil war. Advisers confused about conflicting news reports on the fighting referred...
...everybody's every measurement and we sorted them by various categories, including cause of death, to be put on punch cards," Sigil says...