Word: whack
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...their culture and traditions in a homeland. But many people in Israel no longer choose to identify with tradition and an increasing number of Jews in America really feel the same way. To the further disadvantage of Zionism, the Zionism displayed by many American Jews seems wildly out of whack with the rest of America. For what other ethnic group divides its national allegiances between two countries, save recent immigrants? Why do Jews consider Zionism to be a positive ideology, when so many people in the world agree with the United Nations resolution that "Zionism is racism...
...cyclical critter was due to hatch again anyway, but last week's revelation that Scottish scientists had succeeded in cloning a sheep amounted to a final whack at the snooze button. Now investors are wide awake to the potential wonders of biotechnology for the first time since a euphoric rally in those stocks in 1991. If you're a doctor or scientist, go ahead and take your best shot. Biotech certainly holds great promise, and you may well understand enough to pick the few stocks that will thrive. But overall the industry has been so consistently disappointing that laymen should...
...media should check the clips. Yes, the amount of money sucked up during the latest campaign is revolting, reminiscent of the days of envelopes stuffed with cash. And that a pile of it came from Indonesians gives an old subject new life. But there's something terribly out of whack when three major newspapers base breathless exposes on a March 9, 1993, letter to the President from Mochtar Riady that gives his views on foreign policy, including normalizing relations with Vietnam (which George Bush had begun) and getting President Suharto of Indonesia invited to the G-7 summit (which Clinton...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Democrats had a more stable approach to agriculture than Republicans have, so what we're basically going to need is a Democrat-controlled Congress to get agriculture back in whack...
...Hello, everybody ... Mr. President [to Gerald Ford, sitting in the first row], I hereby designate you hall monitor. You have my permission, sir, to whack anybody who gets out of line ... How you all doin'? Just fine, just fine. Look, if I can do this, anybody can do it ... You O.K., really? Everything all right? Did you get enough to eat?" In reply to someone's question as to where Don Imus was going to sit: "No comment. No fair to ask me questions...