Word: jestingly
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...remark is only half in jest. In a business that thrives on mystery and superstition, Wall Street has good reason to be wary of this particular month. Six of its nine biggest one-day declines occurred during October, including Black Monday in 1929 and the Roaring Eighties crash of 1987. The last major collapse, the minicrash of 1989, also took place in October. While some traders suspect goblins, others blame more mundane forces. One is the so- called calendar effect, which is the result of October being the month when many corporations revise summertime earnings forecasts. Often those projections turn...
...comparison of Fujimori's recent military takeover to the "smoking of a joint but not inhaling" is offensive. Isa the imprisonment of political leaders, the censorship of the press and the loss of liberty and rights something to jest about...
...loved by everyone even more than most practitioners of his trade. Says Stephen Smith, a professor of communications at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and onetime Clinton aide: "He would really like to get 100% in an election." Clinton makes such extreme efforts to conciliate opponents that Arkansans jest that the way to get something you want desperately is to become an enemy of the Governor...
Harvard's faculty has an international reputation. But among students, some scholars are merely seen from a distance and are often inaccessible to students. Rosovsky, in part jest, touched on the issue of inaccessibility when he said he too had a difficult time in reaching colleagues during the reading and exam periods...
Accusing Gomes of filial impiety, murder, adultery, larceny, lying and covetousness, even in jest, doesn't advance Brown's argument; it merely gives him another chance to mock the man. Brown puts himself on such a high and sarcastic pedestal, it seems to me, only to spit on others from it, and that's reprehansible as well as prideful. Brown may be very familiar with St. Paul's Letter to the Romans, but he's forgotten St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians: "Be ye kind...