Word: mocking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...FOCUS ON MONEY? There seem to be thousands of books out there about money, and I am basically trying to viciously mock them. They don't seem to do a lot of good. Look at how many have been sold. Theoretically, every living human being should be at least a millionaire if these books were even halfway effective...
...Qaeda operatives in the U.S. This followed reports of "black sites" in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, where high-level al-Qaeda operatives were kept incommunicado and under stress in conditions well below even Motel 6 standards. Which followed reports of various "coercive interrogation" techniques (most notoriously, water boarding, or mock drowning) used to get information out of the likes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of the 9/11 attacks...
...while Daniel's work is treated as a calling but also, realistically, as a job, with ambitions, pressures and politics. The scripts neatly balance satire and sincerity: while the show's outlandish twists challenge Daniel's faith--he's like Job, if Job lived on Melrose Place--they never mock...
...breakfast at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City and did some quiet photo ops for private donors. During a stop in Little Rock to shoot some public-service announcements last spring, 41 spent more than an hour talking alone with 42 in the mock Oval Office at the Clinton library. "It looked like a wax museum in there," said a visitor who peeked...
...disposable income, something they had never had before. "There's a real change in the power in families once a woman can earn," Thariani says. Her epiphany came, she says, when she heard the husband of one of the women say about his newly schooled daughter, "kind of with mock annoyance, 'That daughter of mine, she's always got her nose in a book.' That was a tectonic shift in these people's lives. These are no longer families of laborers. They're now educated families." The Tharianis--and the Pakistani girls--are the winners...