Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest in Indiana politics nor improved his opinion of "limousine liberals" and "intellectual me tooism" But he admits to changing. He no longer calls himself conservative" and expresses sincere interest in some of the "big campus causes" he once dismissed "In my family it was always something of a joke that I would come out East and become a flaming liberal," he says, smiling. "It hasn't quite been that...
Although a lifelong Labor supporter, Bury this time plans to vote for the Alliance candidate. Says she: "Labor is just a joke. I listen to them talking and I think I am dreaming...
...youthful Frenchmen were careering jubilantly through the streets of Paris, trailing red flags from their cars and chanting, "We've won! We've won!" Standing in the chill spring rain at the Place de la Bastille, others laughingly shouted, "Mitterrand, give us some sun!" Even as a joke, that demand was a measure of the Impossible hopes raised by French President François Mitterrand's election victory two years ago, a historic occasion that brought to an end 23 years of conservative rule...
...quietly spiraled from $64,000 to $27 million this fiscal year. The Federal Government picks up the tab for pensions, offices, staffs, round-the-clock Secret Service protection, maintenance for lavish presidential libraries and a gamut of other expenses ranging from car washes to cable-TV rentals to joke writers' fees. All this, Chiles points out, even though Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon are already millionaires from lucrative memoirs, speaking engagements and television deals. Says Chiles: "We seem to have allowed these people to go from working Presidents to retirement as royalty...
...selected Penn as their first choice school. Students continue to wear the popular "NOT PENN STATE" shirts--a reference to public misunderstanding of Penn's Ivy League status, and of the fact that Penn is different from the similarly named football power--but it has become more of a joke than a serious concern...