Word: glib
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after obtaining a federalcourt order, members, of the Irish-American Gay,Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston (GLIB)marched in the parade...
...watching Newt, Bob, Orrin, Jesse, Alfonse and the rest of Satan's motley crew make their glib, self-satisfied speeches this week, I am now convinced that "diabolical" is too kind a word to describe the New Congressional Order. Perhaps ex-President Bush's "thousand points of light" have come to refer to the remaining true Democrats amidst the all-encompassing night of Republicanism -- tiny candle-flames providing only a little illumination in the face of so much darkness...
...people who will suffer are our kids." Behind all is the question of what will be the driving motive: Improving schools or improving E.A.I.'s bottom line? "This whole business about it being a win-win situation, that they can serve their customers and profit as well, is too glib," charges Alex Molnar, education professor at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, who argues that schools are inherently unprofitable...
...admit, I felt the irony of the situation rather keenly--particularly because the fellow holding forth on all these evils was keeping any of the girls, or even myself, from getting a word in edgewise. His consciousness-raising lecture only had the effect of panicking them. I resented his glib determinism, which essentially dismissed all possibility of rising above the evils men inflict upon women. For a group of Southern girls, many from traditional backgrounds (one girl's mother was alarmed when her daughter confessed to wearing jeans and a baseball cap to class instead of bothering to dress...
Corporate leaders are now clamoring for seats on Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's plane whenever he ventures abroad to drum up trade. Brown -- glad- handing, glib, a kind of uber-Jaycee -- is focusing his efforts mostly on such large emerging markets as Indonesia, South Korea and Latin America. China is the biggest prize: during the next five years, as it struggles to industrialize as rapidly as possible, the People's Republic is expected to go on a $1 trillion shopping spree for foreign technology. Leading a group of 24 U.S. business executives on a whirlwind trip to China two weeks...