Word: laughingstocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gibson, an inarticulate but wily South Carolina dentist who has chaired the group since 1985, the organization has sunk into near bankruptcy--both financially and intellectually. Says Michael Meyers, a former n.a.a.c.p. staff member who now leads the New York Civil Rights Coalition: ``The N.A.A.C.P. has become a laughingstock...
...confused and grasping" Russian military has been searching desperately for a face-saving strategy -- with no success so far. Today, Simmons reports, about 40 ofMoscow's once-feared special forces paratroopersslipped into Grozny, only to be captured by the Chechens: "The Russian military has in many ways become a laughingstock...
David Power, the quality critic Detroit almost rode out of town just 13 years ago, has also become a believer. "The industry was a laughingstock only a few years ago," he says. "But the U.S. automobile industry is going to be a leading example of what can be done in delivering quality products to satisfy the customer...
Most people vent their annoyance simply by making lawyers the laughingstock of the white-collar class. Long after jokes about minorities have become socially unacceptable, mockery of lawyers remains a safe prejudice. Sample: What do lawyers and sperm have in common? Both have a one-in-a-million chance of turning out human. Another: Why did the post office recall its lawyer stamp? Answer: Because people didn't know which side to spit...
...bench like a sixth man, anxiously watching the action and filling in for the starters only as necessary. If he is not ready to step in for George Bush, he has taken advantage of every opportunity to learn on the job. Even as late- night comedians make him a laughingstock, Quayle has quietly established himself as the Administration's point man on a handful of issues. He has become a vigorous White House envoy to constituencies the President ignores. He has shrewdly begun to lay the groundwork for his own 1996 run for the White House. Quayle has become...