Word: jesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctor's office are in a particularly vulnerable situation," says Dr. John Lantos, a medical ethicist at the University of Chicago. They might feel pressured to buy the products just to please their physician. Wouldn't it be less of a conflict of interest, he wonders, only half in jest, if doctors ran a fast-food restaurant in the lobby...
...protect against its misuse. The law may prohibit insurers from ordering genetic tests, for example, but in some states nothing prevents them from using tests that are already part of your medical record. "Apply for insurance today, get tested tomorrow," advises a health-insurance executive, only half in jest...
...novel's characters, Ras the Exhorter, was based on the real-life black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. I remember feeling the smug self-satisfaction that comes with crafting (what I thought was) an original academic argument. I excerpted the essay on my Harvard application. I wondered--only half in jest--whether it was publishable...
...meat of the movie begins with Los Angeles Police Department vets Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) horsing around on Murtaugh's boat with their Leodmouth near-friend Leo Getz (Joe Pesci). Not 10 seconds after Riggs lobs Leo's pistol into the waves in jest, a massive freighter narrowly misses the puny fishing boat. Murtaugh and Riggs lose no time; a speedy flash of badge (very impressive from a distance, no doubt), leads the two cops, with minimal aid from Leo, to a shootout that eliminates the ship's crew and uncovers legions of illegal Chinese...
...Leave it to Beaver' times when the man went out and the woman stayed home." Incredibly, the book is rife with similar interviews. And while the first few are amusing, it soon becomes disheartening to come across so many and realize that they were not said in jest...