Word: joking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have as part of our corporate culture, our enterprise culture?' " he explained Saturday of his effort to save the Salt Lake City Olympics. "And one of the rules we had was we were going to have fun. And the first rule was every meeting had to begin with a joke. And it took some work to find jokes...
...famous; Mark Salter, McCain's co-author, speechwriter and id; and Rick Davis, a successful lobbyist and Washington sage. They've all been with the campaign since it began, and they all survived its implosion last summer; the only thing that really took a hit in its aftermath, they joke, is their pocketbooks...
...cancers over the years, not to mention brutal physical torture as a prisoner of war. His age and health, therefore, are of legitimate concern to voters. But McCain doesn't downplay his liabilities; he highlights them. "I'm older than dirt, with more scars than Frankenstein," he likes to joke...
...waste of $20 billion of good arms. I called Dr. Ephraim Sneh, recently departed deputy defense minister and an expert on Iran. Since he commanded Israeli forces in southern Lebanon in the early '80s, he has watched Iran's rise with mounting alarm. "This isn't a joke for Israel. Iran is thousands of miles from you, hundreds for us. Iran is an existential threat to the state of Israel, said Sneh, who had no doubt in his mind that Israel should do something about Iran...
...Silver State's caucus wasn't supposed to turn out a joke. On the contrary, it scored what was originally intended to be a prime early slot on the political calendar, a nod to both the growing importance of Hispanics, who make up nearly a quarter of the state's population and the power of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who hails from Nevada. It agreed to hold a caucus instead of a primary because state officials believed they it would come second in the nation after Iowa and before New Hampshire, which prizes its first-in-the-nation status...