Word: irregardless
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...argued, from ignoring the principle that every human life is created equal. Now in New Hampshire, he begins the same riff, about the horrors of racism and slavery, but the moral has less to do with social values than economic ones. "We need to now value every human being irregardless of their net worth," he says. When the event was over, voters lined up to wait 30 minutes to shake his hand. Chip Saltsman, who manages the Huckabee campaign, still works as a body man at events, handing the candidate bumper stickers to sign...
...real problem is that our system is upside down, particularly as it relates to things like Medicaid and Medicare. We do nothing to try to encourage the healthy behaviors that would actually control the costs. We put only focus on continuing to provide benefits irregardless of the personal choices people make. While I don?t think we should penalize people for making unhealthy choices, we shouldn?t reward it. But we should in fact create incentives and wards for those who make responsible and healthy decisions...
...Irregardless of race, she brings all of thequalities you want in a professor," Higginbothamsaid. "[Because of her extensive courtroomexperience] she brings a lot of great insightsabout the realities of American democracy...
...this joyful Irishman from Michigan who restored the Cornhuskers' glory. "For instance, how pretty the city of Lincoln really is. Scenery is not exactly a coach's priority. Duffy Daugherty [who coached Michigan State for 19 years] told me the people loved football and supported the team irregardless of the record. 'Of course,' Duffy said, 'they're more friendly when you win.' " Devaney won immediately and spectacularly. After a 3-6-1 season in 1961, the Cornhuskers took nine of eleven games in Devaney's first year and triumphed...
...apprehended the alleged perpetrator." (In a bar, the cop would say, "I collared this creep.") Eventually, all officialese takes on a mindless life of its own, the words combining and recombining according to some notion in the bureaucratic inner ear of how public language ought to sound, regardless (or irregardless, as they say) of what it means. This is an aerosol English, released by pushing a button. Writer Jimmy Breslin describes what is perhaps the ultimate in this prose: a policeman, testifying in a homicide case, refers to "the alleged victim...