Jordan's mother, "Jackie," bragged about how wonderful her empty-skulled daughter is, while I waited for someone, anyone, to ask her a pertinent question, like "Hey Jackie, why didn't you ever teach your hellspawn to tell time, or do simple arithmetic, or what '90 degree angle' means?
Her last pertinent laboratory findings were A1C 8.7%, creatinine 1.9 mg/dl, microalbumin/creatinine 496 mg/g, and hemoglobin 10.8 g/dl.
After your initial pleasantries, get down to business - explain why you called and, if necessary, ask her any pertinent questions that are needed to make the phone call a success.
Her statement, in response to the deplorable inequities women endured in her day, is pertinent today as the nation struggles with marriage equality for same-sex couples.
Her profession is pertinent.
Now in her fourth year in the post, Sadik-Khan is so in the groove and in mastery of her brief that pertinent points and argument-clinching stats trip off the tongue quicker than a yellow cab can change lanes.
But she said the California Resources Agency assured her "that all pertinent findings in the scientific study will be taken into account".
She said the new law was irrelevant to her. (Her stance is understandable, because the most pertinent provisions for her don't kick in until 2014).
But a guilty verdict for Stewart in the ImClone case would make that investigation extremely pertinent to her shareholders, who depend upon her image and credibility to personify the company.
She recently took time off from school and hanging out with her little brother to address the pertinent issues of her day with Vice.
