Word: jokes
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...waste of my time. I know all the keystroke shortcuts, anyway, and to take my hands off the keyboard and my eyes off the screen would be unthinkable. Those valuable seconds could make the difference between a winning and a losing transaction. You think that’s a joke? This is a place for the big boys. The floor is for adults. This is Wall Street. This is what...
Those SUVs are no joke. In the U.S., where 70% of oil is used for transportation, any energy policy is necessarily also an automobile policy. The single key insight of Lovins' report is to focus on the need to reduce the weight of cars (without sacrificing safety) by using advanced materials like carbon fiber and composites instead of heavy steel. When powered by hybrid technologies that combine electricity with the internal-combustion engine, such light vehicles will produce enormous oil savings. Lovins proposes a nifty scheme of "feebates," which would reduce the consumer price of such energy-efficient cars while...
Would you ever want to be a U.S. citizen? Not right now. Because of the terrorism thing, it's safer to be a Chinese citizen. [Translator: That's a joke, by the way.] I still feel very Chinese. This is my country. Besides, basketball is an international language...
...care to see him do it. After Putin’s most blatant power-grab yet, the threat of de-democratization in Eastern Europe will likely continue to seem remote to an American public used to thinking of Russia as a defeated, ailing society—more of a joke than a potentially powerful state...
...HAVE AN EMMY JOKE YOU'D LIKE TO TRY OUT? Let me think. Well, I'm shocked that at this stage of TV, they're having a professional host the Emmys. A real person should be hosting it. I guess we're hanging on by a thread. Because I'm not a real person. I'm a professional. I'm pretty honored...