Word: punching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Sununu, 46, is not just another well-heeled computer buff. He is the Governor of New Hampshire, and the data he pores over so diligently represent the state's $1 billion in annual expenditures. Using the computer and modem in his office in Concord, he can punch in his name and secret password, log on to the state's IBM 4361 mainframe computer, and get a quick reading, in glowing green digits, of the state's financial health: room-and-meal tax returns ($30.3 million as of last November); business profits taxes ($28.4 million); out-of-town travel expenses...
...calculations suggest that asteroids packing the explosive energy of one megaton should enter the atmosphere on an average of once every 30 years, larger asteroids with a 20-megaton punch every 400 years, and a 1 km, 10,000- megaton comet or asteroid once in 100,000 years...
...some 30 people. At one recent session, the subject of Medicaid comes up. An aide says that his administration has reached an impasse. "Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress. None of that." After the meeting, in his office, Cuomo will punch out telephone calls himself. He rings the mayor of Niagara Falls. He is out. He calls his son Andrew, a shrewd 28-year-old lawyer who ran Cuomo's campaign for Governor and is in many ways his father's alter ego. The Governor mentions the name of a potential...
...anchor in Tokyo Bay, 338-piece silver set was returned to the citizens of Missouri, who had generously donated the finery. With the Missouri returning to action, the Navy wanted the silver back. Problem was, Missouri Governor John Ashcroft wanted to hang on to the ship's engraved punch-bowl set, which has been on display at the state capital in Jefferson City. Finally, with the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City acting as mediator, the Navy and the state compromised: when the Missouri is at sea, all the silver is hers. But when she is in home port, the Navy...
Chenevey's two additional strikeouts in the next inning raised his season total to 13 punch-outs in just seven and one-third innings. His ERA dropped...