Word: jerkingly
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...bonds. Sopping up investment dollars were ultrasafe short-term Treasury notes and money-market funds and--get this--gold-mining stocks. Gold hasn't been a great investment in decades, and probably won't be anytime soon. So take the asset shuffle for what it is: a knee-jerk response by money managers who must show their hand to clients each quarter...
...Harvard undergraduates to events of national and international significance. I’m writing in response to an article about last week’s peace rally (“Rally Promotes Peace Despite Terror Attacks” , News. Sept. 21), to express my disappointment with the knee-jerk reaction of several undergraduates to the Sept. 11 tragedy and the American retaliation that will follow...
...response to these barbaric terrorist tactics, our president reacted —before the wreckage had even hit the ground—with a knee-jerk pledge reeking of just as much testosterone: To hunt down and punish whoever is responsible...
...least, with the taste of blood and ashes still strong, Harvard’s usual mix of one-world pacifism and knee-jerk anti-American sentiment seems muted. But already the whispers have begun, in dining halls and chat groups and classrooms, wherever our jaded, over-privileged meritocrats can quietly express their disdain for the simple, easily manipulated sentiments of the common man. If you listen closely, you can hear them—all those flags make me uncomfortable ... this is just an excuse for the Republicans to build up the military ... it’s tragedy, sure...
...course, a little human kindness comes in short supply when things get choppy. Consider a three-day power outage in Georgetown that played havoc with the Monarch's air conditioning over a steamy June weekend. It created textbook examples of good and bad guest behavior. There was the jerk who spent 15 minutes screaming for a cooler room--hey, was that you? The obnoxious one ultimately got what he asked for. But so did the guest who simply requested to be relocated. The only difference was 14 minutes of unpleasantness for everyone in the hotel lobby. "That kind of rudeness...