Word: punches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JEAN ("I'M NOT A CRETIN") CHRETIEN OCCUPATION: Canadian Prime Minister BEST PUNCH: Nixed Black's bid for a seat in the British House of Lords with a 1919 document asking U.K. monarchs not to confer titles on Canadians...
CONRAD ("IN THE") BLACK OCCUPATION: Canadian media mogul BEST PUNCH: Sued Chretien, whom his papers have sharply criticized for years, for $16,000, citing among other things "abuse of public office...
...math and science, Penn State researchers reported last week. And benefits from after-school jobs, such as practical application of math, are less available because of increased reliance on equipment like coded-key registers. So if your kids have to work, make sure they hit the books before they punch the clock...
...hate relationship with Hollywood and the media; we've supported Beavis and Butt-head's meta-media sarcasm and David Letterman's roasting of TV bigs. It's a short step from a late-night joke about CBS chief Les Moonves to the name dropping that has become easy punch-line fodder on even bland fare like Movie Stars ("Any movie where you throw Jeff Goldblum down a flight of stairs is a good movie"). These references flatter us by confirming that we're the sort of hipsters who would knowingly chuckle at them, that we're the quality audience...
RESISTANCE REDUX It's happening again. The newest class of antibiotics, called fluoroquinolones, may be losing its punch. A huge study in Canada concludes that 5% of S. pneumoniae bacteria--a common bug responsible for pneumonia and meningitis--may be resistant to fluoroquinolones. Doctors had hoped that because fluoroquinolones, unlike previous antibiotics, are synthetic, bacteria wouldn't be able to outsmart them...