Word: deigning
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...That's right, a dongle. About the size of a small travel alarm clock, the dongle attaches to a desktop PC or a laptop and lets users charge small cyberpurchases to their Vodafone bill. Gates did not deign to use the D word himself - a Vodafone lieutenant joined him on stage to show off the nubby thing - but raved on about visions of "magic advances of hardware and software" that will "make the mobile experience even better than it is today...
...with the snipers in the building, as the cameraperson crouched half a mile from the action. Little bursts came from both sides, and then short pauses to see who was still alive. All the commercials and commentary that break up primetime coverage of the war didn’t deign to show themselves in the rough and tumble 2 a.m. slot...
Never underestimate the infinite wisdom of the Harvard Coop. Julia Pottinger ’92 makes that mistake. She’s a best-selling author who was just featured in Time magazine as a trendsetter, but is pretty sure that the Coop won’t deign to stock her books. At least in her day, they wouldn’t. “Oh, when I was [at Harvard] I always had to go to Kendall,” she says...
...crowd Madonna concerts go to see both the real Madge and her various fictional incarnations. Movie stars, because they are by definition absorbing as both their real selves and their imaginary creations, have already acquired some of the most important skills they need to be pop stars. When they deign to put them to use in their music, as Black does, they have a shot at rocking hard...
...acting early, so as to prevent Macedonia becoming another Balkan bloodbath. It has sent in an advance team of 400 soldiers, soon to be accompanied by a further 3,100, on a 30-day mission to collect whatever weapons the ethnic-Albanian guerrillas of the National Liberation Army deign to hand over. Of course many of those guerrillas, particularly the more militant factions based around Tetovo, are still actively using those weapons and it's hard to imagine they'll be ready to hand them over in the next couple of days or weeks when they're still being fired...