Word: laughingstocks
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Irving Fisher lives on in American economic history mainly as a laughingstock. He was, after all, the ninny who declared on Oct. 15, 1929, that stock prices had reached "what looks like a permanently high plateau." Two weeks later, stocks plunged off that plateau--not to return to their 1929 level for a quarter-century...
...will put up a fight for the governor's mansion in 2010, when Lisa Madigan is also expected to run. When asked whether he would have made the same move as Lisa Madigan in trying to get the governor ousted, Birkett insisted he would not. "Illinois is currently the laughingstock of the nation," he claimed. It was a power play by the AG, he said, and one that stood little chance of success since it requires some proof that the governor is somehow incapacitated - not just allegedly corrupt. "I'm aware of the rule, but I would not have...
...home, our problems include a defunct medical system whose costs and inequities are an international laughingstock, an ineffective immigration policy, gasoline consumption 50 percent above international standards, and, for the first time in American history, growing disparities not just in wealth but in opportunities for our citizens...
...These days, signatures do not matter as "nobody reads petitions and if someone does we signatories are a laughingstock", Magor says. He waits for his knuckles marked with cuts from a fistfight with "some cretin" to heal, so he could smash the one-time communist prison guard into pieces. The new era with its corrupt politicians makes him "throw up", but in the end fighting for it was worth...
...entitled “The Natives are Getting Restless” and its cover depicted a Native American holding a scalp.An editorial in the same issue called Harper’s letter “appalling,” saying that her decision made Dartmouth the “laughingstock of all of academia.”“The administration and the campus as a whole owe the [Native Americans at Dartmouth] no sort of olive branch until [they] prove themselves willing to engage in a reasonable, productive dialogue,” the editorial reads...