Word: mereness
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...reward Eminem with an album of the year nod for his middling "The Marshall Mathers LP." First, the CD isn't all that great - the beats are a bit tired and the jokes wear out quickly. Second, its gay-baiting and women-bashing make it a mere soundtrack for school bullies...
...took the U.S. Supreme Court and its vast store of institutional prestige to end our 36-day national electoral nightmare. When people like Katherine Harris, the Florida legislature and House majority whip Tom DeLay talked about ending the recounts and declaring Bush the winner, they were widely attacked as mere political partisans. But when five Supreme Court Justices did very much the same thing, Al Gore started drafting his concession speech...
...Babe Ruth was asked to justify his new annual salary, $80,000, which he was paid to hit baseballs a long way, in light of the fact that the President of the United States was making a mere 75 grand. "I had a better year than he did," Ruth replied. He wasn't wrong, certainly, but the carping continued...
...after a mere 1.2 percent increase in this year, the number of applications seems to be leveling...
...vacating that decision with a mere query, the Rehnquist court strained to keep from humiliating its Florida subordinate. But the query--Could you kindly provide justification for a decision that appears baseless?--sent a pointed message to the willful Florida justices...