MONEY MATTERS
Hey big spender--set aside a few bucks for the future in one of these, an IRA for short.
an individual retirement account
These cephalopods not only have 8 appendages, but 3 hearts.
octopus
Oh well, whatever, name this 1991 Nirvana album that includes "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Nevermind
Garfield the cat craves this Italian dish.
lasagna
A hollow area that holds a light bulb.
socket
It's buying large quantities from manufacturers & selling smaller lots to retailers.
wholesaling
The reason why astronauts are taller in space is due to a lessening of this force; the vertebrae separate slightly, allowing for a height increase of 2 inches or more.
gravity
After Nirvana disbanded following the death of lead singer Kurt Cobain in April 1994, drummer Dave Grohl formed this Alternative Rock band.
Foo Fighters
This Warner Bros. cartoon cat who starred in "Tweetie Pie" never seems to get his bird.
Sylvester
An inflammation of the eyelid's lining, conjunctivitis is more commonly known by this colorful name.
pink eye
In 1976 Bank Americard got this new name with an international flavor.
Visa
Bananas have a tiny amount of radioactivity due to this element, which can emit .01 millirems of radiation.
potassium
With their lead single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Nirvana quickly entered the mainstream, popularizing this subgenre of alternative rock.
grunge
In the ultra-violent cartoon-within-a-cartoon on The Simpsons, this feline victim is constantly maimed by a sadistic mouse named Itchy.
Scratchy
A student, or a minor in Roman law.
pupil
Convertible bonds are convertible into the common type of this, at the option of the lender.
stock
It's believed all living people get their mitochondrial DNA from one African woman, known as Mitochondrial her.
Eve
This Nirvana song shares its name with an element used in medications for bipolar disorder.
lithium
Created in 1919, this cat was the cartoon king before the rise of Mickey Mouse.
Felix the Cat
Get to a doctor pronto if this layer of tissue that processes light detaches from the back of your eye.
the retina
Applying for college? Consider going for one of these $4,000 grants, named for a Rhode Island senator in 1980.
a Pell grant
Microbes feeding on an ancient Antarctic forest may be generating billions of tons of this greenhouse gas, CH4.
methane
Nirvana, a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, represents the final goal of this religion.
Buddhism
Though often confused as a knockoff of Garfield, this character actually appeared first in a 1973 comic strip by George Gately.
Heathcliff
Lasik surgery corrects vision problems by using a laser to alter this dome-shaped tissue at the front of the eye.
the cornea