Word: mock
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...idea of a mock debate between the student supporters of each candidate particularly appeals...
...Gore campaign dispatches 6-ft. "Corn Man" to protest Bill Bradley's agriculture policy, a human chicken to highlight Bradley's fear of debates and jumping-jacking senior citizens known as Gray Panthers to mock his claim that exercise would lower Medicare costs...
...bond market has taken his hints and moved accordingly. A couple of years ago I ran into Greenspan's predecessor, the aggressive inflation fighter Paul Volcker, and asked him what he thought of Greenspan's performance. Volcker, a financial heavyweight, wouldn't grade Greenspan, but he voiced a mock complaint that Greenspan was getting a lot of credit for prosperous times without having to break a sweat. The vigilantes were doing it for him. When traders whiffed inflation, they chased long-term rates higher to curb borrowing power and cool the economy...
Missed. Again. The $12.5 billion U.S. National Missile Defense (NMD) program suffered another setback Tuesday night when it failed its most elaborate test to date. An interceptor missile fired from a Pacific atoll failed to hit a mock warhead deployed by a missile fired in California. Although the system managed to destroy a mock warhead last October, it was later reported to have been a lucky accident after the interceptor missile had locked on to a decoy balloon that drifted close to the target. "I call the Pentagon all the time and sometimes they can?t transfer my calls...
...markets crash or my husband loses his job, we're ready," she says. In Ontario, Bruce Beach, who began constructing a bunker of 42 buried school buses 18 years ago, watched astounded as city after city passed into modernity with nary a scratch. And MTV Online, as if to mock it all, was showing Internet film of the six kids it set up in a campy Y2K bunker under a building in Manhattan...