Word: mimicing
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...hard of hearing, sometimes appears inarticulate and unsure of the facts. But at last week's session he was feisty and sharp. Questioned about Carter's prediction that Reagan might try to duck a debate with Mondale, the President fairly jumped at the chance to mimic his devastating line from the 1980 debate with Carter. Declared Reagan...
...extensive tests to determine their capabilities. The planes are also used in simulated combat exercises, staging air skirmishes with U.S. fighters to give American pilots training in Soviet air-battle techniques. Publicly, the Air Force acknowledges only that four "aggressor squadrons" of U.S.-made F-5Es are used to mimic MiGs. A spokesman at Nellis said no such "red flag" training exercises were in progress on the day Bond crashed...
offering too many lectures and not enough tutorials and discussions that allow students to think analytically, rather than simply mimic rote facts...
...beverages generally mimic all the trappings of premium beer, including the price tag of $3 or more per sixpack. Moussy, a nonalcoholic Swiss-made product, is bottled like a prestige import beer, complete with foil wrapper. White Rock Products, which distributes Moussy (pronounced moose-y) in the U.S., expects to sell 650,000 cases this year. The company is now running a special advertising campaign in the Midwest aimed at churchgoers who have given up alcohol for Lent...
...outcome, of course, is realistic only to the extent that the controllers were able to mimic what really would have been the Kremlin's reactions. There were inevitable postgame quibbles. Chayes is skeptical about the size of the Soviet invasion. Richard Pipes, who resigned from the real NSC staff a year ago and played a senior adviser, thinks the game's denouement "was a little deus ex machina. The Russians backed down very fast...