Word: spouts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...main DJ stand last year was behind a Model T constructed entirely of CDs. Boats shaped like dragons, with snouts that spout fire, float across the lake. Fire twirlers on stilts meander around with no evident purpose...
...Bush. Far from being the obscenely wealthy’s first explicit lobbying group, they are a particularly meta feather in the left wing, seeking to present the excesses of the Bush administration with jokey, street-theatre tactics powered by firm liberalism. Adopting outsize Bush-loving personas, the Billionaires spout often-scripted lines about what they say—well, heavily imply—is a president who has catered dangerously to the top wealth brackets...
...conceive of the idea that some impoverished people really can’t break “the cycle.” How could it be, after all, when you can cite the countless instances of immigrant populations that have thrived due to hard work and determination? They spout off inspirational anecdotes of underprivileged students who “made it to Harvard” and tell stories of their once-destitute parents who made it big because of their entrepreneurial or otherwise outstanding abilities. (Of course, neither luck, nor good fortune, factor into the success of these...
Eisner, 61, took over a doddering Disney in 1984 and made it spout money. But since 1996, Disney has been sputtering. Eisner's outsize compensation, his somnolent board of directors and poor performances at ABC and Disney's theme parks and animation business have made him a target. Eisner's micromanaging style, imperious mien and inability to groom a successor--all perfectly acceptable when you're coining money--are now liabilities. Chief dissident Roy Disney, the founder's nephew, has called for his head, and Institutional Shareholders Services, an influential investor-advisory group, has recommended that its clients withhold their...
...want to kiss kiss kiss where the sun don't shine." Sorry, Christmas shoppers, it's not available in the U.S. But plenty of other real-life political dolls are, from President Bush (in his flight jacket) to comedian Dennis Miller. They don't dance, but they do spout some of their most famous lines...