Word: jerkingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much as they scare us with their reactionary, knee-jerk rhetoric, Perot and Limbaugh scare Washington even more, Politicians tremble when they sense that public opinion, which they thought was theirs to manipulate, is escaping their control. Even though Limbaugh and Perot exploit our cynicism to promote themselves, they unwittingly create an opportunity for the public to engage itself more constructively in political life...
...particularly find it funny. I think whoever did it was a jerk," he said. "It upsets me that certain individuals would accuse people and have it printed when they obviously hadn't checked that they knew the entire story...
That was then. Since taking office, Clinton's passion for the issue has flared only once -- last week, when he stomped on Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders for suggesting a study of the possibility of legalizing illicit drugs. Clinton's knee-jerk, anti-intellectual response, which can be fairly summarized as "No way, nohow; not now, not ever," is bad enough. Worse is his silent acceptance of policies that shortchange drug treatment, an abandonment of his pledge to invert the ratio of funds spent on drug interdiction vs. treatment, a split that continues to allocate $13.1 billion of federal antidrug money...
Moreover, he has dispelled the fears that his foreign policy inexperience would lead to rash decisions. The knee-jerk reaction in Bosnia would have been intervention. In Somalia, it would have been a hasty withdrawal. In China, it would have meant revocation of most-favored-nation trade status. On the contrary, Clinton's decisions have been the measured responses of a seasoned statesman...
...Ph.D.) would know that this statement is utterly preposterous. Professor Stager is an accomplished archaeologist, historian and biblical scholar with numerous years of experience in education and excavation. In short, the personal attacks upon Professor Stager have been unfounded, inappropriate and indicative of The Crimson's Knee-jerk response to actions of the Harvard administration...