Word: dubs
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...They are a joke." - On the Anti-Defamation League, an organization dedicated to combating anti-Semitism. The remark led MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann to dub Dobbs the "worst person in the world" in February 2008 (Media Matters...
Despite the terms at their disposal, police departments often prefer to dub an individual a person of interest because it has a measure of political correctness that technical terms lack, according to Dr. Rande Matteson, an ex-officer and professor of criminal justice at Florida's Saint Leo University. Matteson says the term is "less damaging" than dubbing someone a suspect, particularly if the police prove to be wrong in their identification. Cynthia Hujar Orr, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, says authorities may also use the term as a way to curry cooperation, on the assumption...
...media and supporters--and then rapidly strode back into neighboring Nicaragua to set up camp. The action put Honduras' political crisis back in the headlines, and it set tensions boiling and troops firing tear gas on Zelaya's supporters nearby, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to dub the move "reckless...
...spot that resembles a spot that females get when pregnant. Dominant males then court them rather than fight with them. While the dominant guys are busy courting the subordinate, ladylike fish, the latter are able to "sneak copulations with females," as Bailey and Zuk write. I'm going to dub this the Hugh Grant Theory: it's not always the most masculine guy who gets the most girls...
Belarus is in many ways a post-Soviet nation in name only. Its state security service is still called the KGB and the iron-fisted rule of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has led the U.S. State Department to dub the country "Europe's last dictatorship." U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Freedom House included the country in its "Worst of the Worst 2009" report released earlier this month, naming Belarus one of the 21 most repressive places in the world...