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Let us now praise the sardine

Chan School epidemiologist suggests eating lower on the seafood chain, pointing to environmental benefits and reduced mercury risk. At first, Ms. Garrett backed Mr. Bellesiles. “I realize that he made some errors, but they certainly were not made intentionally,” she told The Chronicle of Higher Education in early 2002. “They were the result of some over-quick research.”

India Scrambles to Supply Oxygen as Covid-19 Patients Gasp for Breath

• The country’s Supreme Court ordered the government to come up with a national oxygen distribution plan as coronavirus cases continue to climb.
• India had over 330,000 new cases in 24 hours, the health ministry said Friday, the second consecutive day it has set a global record for daily infections.

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When Trump said during the debate that not paying taxes "makes me smart," a group of undecided voters in NC gasped.

When Trump said that not paying taxes ‘makes me smart,’ undecided voters in N.C. gasped

The Republican nominee was not as attractive to some after the first…

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He began by laughingly calling the latest news on the economic meltdown “a interesting moment” and ended by saying that “our energy policy has not been very wise” and that there was “no quick fix” on gasp-inducing gas prices.



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There is a solo-living boom among the old and rich. The young and poor are pushed into playing sardines
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Britain’s housing paradox: overcrowding and underoccupancy are both rising
As more young people share, more elderly rattle around alone




Barring a miracle, Britain's prime minister looks like losing again this weekend

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Boris Johnson will struggle to sell his last-gasp Brexit deal to Parliament




It’s not just Scotland’s schools. The whole PFI racket is crumbling
The scandal of Edinburgh’s unsafe schools is the last gasp of a discredited…



sardines - Urban Dictionary

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A game you can play with your friends. One person hides, and the other friends split up and look for that person. If they find the hiding person, they have to hide with the hiding person until everyone is hiding in one place. The last person to find ...

over-quick 

: too quick or ready.

Overquick Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

last-gasp

adjective

1. done at the last possible moment, typically in desperation.

   "Wilson levelled with a last-gasp try"

gasp through a tracheotomy tube
tra·che·ot·o·my (trā'kē-ŏt'ə-mē) 
n., pl. -mies.
Surgical incision of the trachea through the neck, as to make an artificial opening for breathing.
━━ n. 【医】気管切開（手術）.
Wikipedia article "Tracheotomy"
At 89, founder of the ultra-rightist Fuerza Nueva, which even Franco found too reactionary, he greeted me eager to launch headlong into a kind of stump speech for the old dictatorship, pausing, from time to time, to gasp through a tracheotomy tube.

gasp
verb [I]
1 to take a short quick breath through the mouth, especially because of surprise, pain or shock:
When she saw the money hidden in the box she gasped in surprise.
[+ speech] "Help me!" he gasped.

2 UK INFORMAL be gasping to be very thirsty

gasp
noun [C]
when you gasp:
He gave a gasp of amazement.



quick fix noun [C] INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
something that seems to be a fast and easy solution to a problem but is in fact not very good or long-lasting:
People are still looking for the quick fix.
He warned against any quick-fix solutions.