The strings move in and out of long legato waves and punchier pizzicato moments, pushing against a loud, digital shaker sound.

NEWYORKER: Boyz II Man

But his coalition partners on the right, the free-market Liberals under the punchier Frits Bolkestein, also did better than before, coming second with 25%.

ECONOMIST: The Netherlands

She has criss-crossed America, from scholarly Cambridge in Massachusetts to punchier places like Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Mobile, Alabama, to tell the American in the street her idea of foreign policy.

ECONOMIST: Madeleine s��en va-t-en guerre

In 1947, the company dropped the name of its founders in favor of a punchier moniker borrowed from its early car stereo -- a name that meant "sound in motion, " according to the company line.

ENGADGET: Motorola: a brief history

Add to Mr Fabius, Mr Lang, Mr Sapin and Miss Tasca a quartet of lesser appointments, including one each for the Greens and the Communists, and Mr Jospin can fairly claim that his new team is both better balanced and punchier than its predecessor.

ECONOMIST: France shuffles its pack