Word: snickeringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other Governor, it would have been a minor flap over the state budget. But nothing is routine anymore for Michael Dukakis, especially when it allows Republicans to snicker at his much touted Massachusetts Miracle. Last week the front runner in the Democratic presidential campaign was forced to concede that sagging tax revenues have thrown his $11.6 billion 1988 budget out of balance by more than $300 million, with additional red ink forecast for 1989. Since the Massachusetts constitution mandates a balanced budget, Dukakis must trim spending programs -- a task that should be good practice if he ever moves...
...what you will, snicker if you must, but give Hart his due: it was a great piece of political theater. Rocky, Richard Nixon, Douglas MacArthur, the metaphors of return are all part of the common heritage. So, too, are the religious themes of exile and resurrection. Hart's bumper-sticker rendition of his platform was far sharper and crisper than the rhetoric of his Democratic rivals, but what was most distinctive was the way Hart played the populist poetry of his political predicament. "This will not be like any campaign you've ever seen," Hart promised, "because I am going...
...Michael Becker's woes won't bring tears to your eyes, but there's no need to snicker. Becker, 29 and single, works as a broker for Kidder Peabody on Wall Street. He earns a six-figure salary, likes his restaurants expensive and vacations in Africa, French Polynesia, Australia and London. This week he was scheduled to close on a loft apartment, but last week found him on the phone, pleading with his lawyer to extricate him from the contract. "I even told the shoeshine boy, 'I can't afford a shine today,' " he laments...
North accused the committees of "snickering" when the hosiery item was posted in a wall enlargement. "You know that I've got a beautiful secretary," he said of his assistant Fawn Hall. "And the good Lord gave her the gift of beauty, and the people snicker that Ollie North might have been doing a little hanky-panky with his secretary. Ollie North has been loyal to his wife since the day he married her." When he asked his "best friend" Betsy about the purchase, she told him, "You old buffoon, you went there to buy leotards for our two little...
Option A: Instruct each student's academic advisor to snicker audibly when signing his or her study card...