Word: joking
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...Branson and his team actually seem to have hope for air travel in the U.S., where poor service and perpetual bankruptcies have turned the industry into a sick national joke. Customer complaints soared 60% last year, a number that will surely get a boost from the 300,000 passengers who endured the abrupt cancellation in early April of nearly 3,300 American Airlines flights for inspections; there may be more at other airlines this summer. Crushed by high fuel prices, four airlines have declared bankruptcy since March...
...ignoring the world from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego is ridiculous. The U.S. exports $225 billion worth of goods each year to Latin America--more than quadruple what it sells to China. The old journalists' joke that Americans will do anything for Latin America but read about it now sounds more foolish than funny...
...student myself, I am not in the position to endow millions of dollars to give a huge prize,” Chadbourne said. University policy calls for a minimum of $25,000 to establish the cheapest variety of permanent award. Originally questioned as an April Fool’s joke over the UC general e-mail list, the self-titled award was announced under a blurry panorama centered on Lowell House, where Chadbourne lived as an undergraduate, and was accompanied by a paragraph detailing Chadbourne’s involvement in student government. While at Harvard, Chadbourne was a UC representative...
...After observing his love interest, Kathy Lacey (Dorothy McGuire), stay silent after hearing an anti-Semitic joke at a dinner party, he upbraids her: everyone may object to the joke, but if everyone stays quiet or laughs politely, the jokes will keep getting made. She must speak up and bring to the collective conscious of the room the unacceptability of bigotry. He does not want her to change their minds: he wants her to be an emperor?...
...experience. Fleming felt that when she made the decision in eighth grade to attend an all-girls high school, her choice was met with biting responses. “There was an assumption that people made, that I might be a feminist, and in middle school the boys would joke about lesbianism,” Fleming says. Joanna Marquina ’10, didn’t want to leave her guy friends behind and attend an single-sex school. In fact, the decision to enter Woodlands Academy, an all-girls Catholic day school in Illinois, was her parents?...