Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found to be two people: one is a 15-year-old girl who lost a relative to AIDS and says she wrote the letter to focus attention on the disease; the other is a 29-year-old medical-school employee who says she called the radio station as a joke...
...fact, the dust-sampling program has long been riddled with cheating that goes beyond the kind exposed by the Labor Department. "The system is so easy to beat," says Larry Bledsoe. "It's a joke." Bledsoe, 45, worked in the mines of Logan County for 25 years until injuries ended his career. Bledsoe says that testing devices were routinely deployed in areas free of dust, far from where the miners worked. Some devices were even kept inside plastic bags and lunch pails to ensure clean samples...
BILL SEIDMAN has just topped his own private joke. Shortly before he was confirmed in 1985 as chairman of the FDIC, Seidman got an Irish wolfhound, which he named Proxmire after the Senator who opposed his confirmation. "Heel, Proxmire," Seidman would bark. But not long ago, as Seidman prepared to step down from his post, William Proxmire wrote a flattering valedictory to the chairman. So Seidman renamed his dog Annunzio in dubious honor of Frank Annunzio, chairman of a House Banking subcommittee, who has sparred with Seidman over the S&L bailout. Seidman tells colleagues that when he calls "Annunzio...
...believe that the Undergraduate Council is responsible for all of the failings in the election process; the election was also mishandled by the undergraduates in general. The vast majority of the Harvard student body either did not cast a ballot, or treated the election as little more than a joke. I do not wish to criticize those students that did vote, nor those who had some legitimate reason for not voting. Unfortunately, these students are in the minority...
...condone the manner in which the Undergraduate Council conducts its annual election. In more than one house, a group of students apparently thought that it was funny to run a friend as a write-in candidate as a joke. In some cases these friends were aware of their candidacies, in others they were not, but in every single case it was a blatant abuse of the political process...