Word: scoff
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...roommates are the skeptical sort who have developed, over the past two-and-a-half years, a healthy disrespect for Ivy League men's basketball. Accustomed by years of sports watching to wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am NBA dunks and other SportsCenter highlights, they scoff at the idea of serious competition in the Ancient Eight...
Warning: If you scoff at Harvard sports, reading this column might be detrimental to your health...
...with anti-American, anti-NATO slogans. Equipped with his felt-tipped pen, Fred changes the Spanish word for pigs ("cerdos") to that for deers ("ciervos"). It ends up reading "Yankee Deers Go Home." The problem here is that you don't know if you are supposed to laugh or scoff...
...chairman Reed Hundt has promised that the agency will listen to the cable industry's complaints and consider refining the rules. Consumer advocates, though, scoff at cable's cries of pain. "When I hear a cable operator say he can't add a new channel," says Bradley Stillman, legislative counsel to the Consumer Federation of America, "I wonder how many shopping channels he's got on the air, or how many channels in which he has a financial interest. Channel decisions are driven by many factors -- and the industry is trying to blame...
When the Celtics first came out, at $18.50 a "unit" (another name for a share), the Boston papers scoffed and said it was a sucker play because the team was worth maybe $5 a unit at the time. But the fans are having the last scoff because all along they've got a 7% to 13% annual tax-sheltered distribution, and even without Larry Bird the value of the team is catching up to the original price...