Word: trumping
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...when the protesters are permitted to chant outside this residential dorm until after midnight, preventing students from studying, relaxing or sleeping. Wasn’t this a case of disturbing the peace? Why did the protestors’ “right” to go unmolested and unaccountable trump my students’ right to peace and quiet? Why weren’t the protestors dispersed by the police...
...boyfriend CHRIS JUDD, but Puffy merely gave J.Lo a gentle peck on the cheek. Soon COURTNEY LOVE was throwing a high-pitched fit because her manager couldn't get into the party; DENISE RICH was expertly dodging a photo op with MONICA LEWINSKY; and old guys Hugh Hefner, Donald Trump and LARRY KING meandered with their decades-younger lady escorts. Yes, that is Larry King's tongue...
Despite these defiant expectations, the possibility of increased unemployment could threaten the sector's healthy condition. For investors, the question is whether cheap mortgages can trump wider fears about the economy...
...Actually, I grew up making exactly this kind of movie and knew that someday a film like Spy Kids would be my trump card. I have nine siblings, of which I'm the third oldest, and I was always shooting these "family comedies" with my brothers and sisters that would actually win at festivals and stuff. But the actual genesis of Spy Kids itself came when I was shooting my segment of Four Rooms and I saw the kids in their tuxedos and commented to Antonio [Banderas] that they looked like little spies. So then I got to thinking about...
...mind-set probably go back as far as the stock- market crash of 1987, which had little immediate effect on the overall economy but gave many people an uneasy feeling about the Roaring Eighties. The spectacular failures of such '80s heroes as Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. ''The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people...