Word: scoff
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...Cynics can scoff at the product's bubblegum blandness, but that's precisely what's helped make HSM a global hit. The archetypes of Gabriella the brainy new girl in town, Troy the jock and Sharpay the diva travel well, as do the poppy songs and the themes of first love, cliques and friendship. Ross toured 25 regional Disney Channels around the globe two years ago, trying to convince them of HSM's potential. He met resistance "everywhere." But when Chinese or Russian marketers would fret that local viewers wouldn't get cheerleaders or basketball, he would drill down...
...emptied. Carp are swimming through suburban Milwaukee streets. An Iowa farmer has drowned in his own field. And the havoc is expected to continue, with more bizarre weather and even an alert about a mini-tsunami on Lake Michigan in Chicago. What next? Twisters down Michigan Avenue? Don't scoff...
...College’s cultural organizations. Sophie B. Besl ’08, who co-chairs Girlspot, says, “there’s always this group of gays that are ‘too cool for school.’” Just as students might scoff at becoming associated primarily with an ethnic group, Besl says, some BGLT students don’t see a need to participate in organized gay life.It is the confusingly divisive nature of the “ins” and “outs” of the gay community...
Boasting the status of one of the consistently nationally ranked soccer teams in the country—and garnering a multitude of individual player awards and the 2006 Ivy League title—the program that Kerr built is nothing to scoff at. In just short of a decade, Kerr amassed a record of 81-56-13 and managed to take his team to the NCAA Tournament three times...
...State Department is ordering balloons and streamers: North Korea has agreed to give up its nukes. But the party is 13 years too late: North Korea said it wouldn’t build those nukes in 1994.Never mind the details, U.S. diplomats scoff; the “dialogue” between the U.S. and the North never has been better. Under the agreement the countries signed in February of this year—and are just getting around to now—North Korea has promised to disclose and dismantle all its nuclear facilities. In return, the U.S. will remove...