Word: joking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cause. But getting Shanghai itself to take notice is a slow process. A delegation of Shanghainese officials-representing government, urban planning, preservation and business development-attended the Miami event. "I invited them all to see the same exhibition in Shanghai, and they never came," says Erh. "It's a joke. I spent $3,750 of my own money to ship the pictures to Miami, when they could have seen them right here in Shanghai...
...without making much of a dent in the real world. Enter Aleksey Vayner. The Yale student submitted his video résumé, titled Impossible Is Nothing, to investment bank UBS last fall. It became a YouTube classic, while its karate-chopping, tennis-acing, deep-thought-having star became the joke of Wall Street. But another funny thing happened: Vayner's vanity creation awakened recruiters and job seekers to the possibilities of marrying the video CV to the Internet--and that may just revolutionize the job-search process as we know...
...It’s really fun to joke about it now, but it can really suck when you’re doing it,” said Barrett, who will rely on his friends from training to help him through his service. “You develop a common bond, common experiences, so you know that the person next to you isn’t going to let you down, you’re going to accomplish the mission, and you’re not going to leave anyone behind...
...days ago in a house dining hall I overheard a rather troubling conversation that has echoed throughout our campus like a hollow, unfunny joke...
...When you learned the phrase “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” in kindergarten, you were really learning an important life lesson that rings all the more true when you’re on the receiving end of an unfunny joke...