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...course, some people who know us have suggested that in our case the underlying problem may be pure laziness. To them I retort: That wouldn't explain the swag situation, would...
...that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." Lieberman: "I can tell my wife is out there, she wants me to go out in the private sector." Cheney: "I'm going to try to help you do that, Joe." Score it for Cheney - Lieberman's retort was lost in real live applause - but the thing was, everybody laughed. Real laughter...
...defensive answer leaves Gore another retort - "Well, they don't" - that leaves Bush looking like he hasn't been reading the papers. The Russians have in fact gone with a fuzzy "it's up to the Serbs" approach," which is arguably somewhere in between. But the lasting impression is of Bush taking the hit in silence because he's not quite sure of the details...
...take the same classes at Harvard as the students who wrote the book. The boys at the 'Poon certainly know what they're doing, though: making obscure references the basis for their humor inoculates them against the common charge that they are just not very funny. But, they can retort, the incomprehensible article in five-point type of the last issue was simply hilarious if you've read Gravity's Rainbow. You haven't read it? Well then, it's you own fault that you don't get it. So there...
Plaintiffs' lawyers retort that they are the only force in public life today that can be counted on to stand up for everyday Americans. "We're the last bastion," says Pensacola, Fla., trial lawyer Fred Levin, a key player in his state's tobacco litigation. "We're the last fighters available for the little guy." They say they've been on the right side of the big issues for decades, from getting air bags in cars to limiting tobacco companies' advertising to minors to forcing gun companies to install trigger locks...