Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Congress, far from a perfect institution, is often the rightful object of national scorn. But charges of privilege and failure to respect rule of law, coming from George Herbert Walker Bush, are not just inaccurate--they are remarkably ironic...
...have those rates refused to budge? The spread between what banks pay to borrow money and the interest rates they charge on credit cards has grown to nearly 14 percentage points, the widest gap since the deregulation of interest rates in 1982. The chasm has attracted both public scorn and scrutiny. Declares Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "Consumers are being gouged by the banks...
...David Souter hypothesized that the Supreme Court nominee was "in the closet," Limbaugh said, "I think any of us would be safer in a closet with Judge Souter than we would be in an automobile with Ted Kennedy." Any member of the Kennedy family is vulnerable to Limbaugh's scorn, and in the unlikeliest contexts. Last week Rush noted that accused murderer-cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer would plead innocent by reason of insanity. "That's like finding William Kennedy Smith guilty of rape," he opined, "and then having a trial to see if he was horny...
...rattlesnake oil. The American Medical Association's committee on quackery had branded the practice an "unscientific cult," and medical- school professors had obediently followed suit. The reluctance of the so- called back-crackers to submit their technique to the scrutiny of hard science served only to reinforce the official scorn. Recalls Shekelle: "They were seen as hucksters and charlatans trying to dupe the public into paying for useless care...
...Noble's open scorn for Cambridge politicking and "party hacks" may turn her into a fringe candidate by alienating many of the CCA supporters that might otherwise vote for her because of her gay, white liberal image and her support of rent control--always the bottom-line litmus test of Cambridge politics...