He says laughingly that he's sprouted "quite a few gray hairs" since, leading the upscale equivalent of a military operation.

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The other day, an advocate laughingly dismissed the idea that programs for seniors and others with disabilities will face such dramatic cuts.

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In a rare misjudgment of the public mood, Lula laughingly lamented his bad luck to be leaving just before the largesse arrived.

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The driver and Mr Duggan chatted "laughingly" before they headed for Tottenham.

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The public anger reveals that until now, Hungary's voters had presumably believed that Gyurcsany's government had actually been telling the truth, an assumption many might laughingly dismiss as naive.

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As ALT Systems president Jon Guess laughingly explained, it provides clients "one neck to wring" should things go wrong, rather than dev studios having to suss out hardware issues on their own.

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Two weeks before this interview with The Economist he was in an Israeli jail, where he says he lost 40 kilos (88lb) during 92 days of detention (probably for the best, he admits laughingly).

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He laughingly agreed and promised to stop by.

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If you were an arrogant and incompetent guy like Roy Bostock, would you want to be summarily dismissed by your shareholders next June and have your Wiki biography forever read that you were the chief doofus of the board of doofuses who laughingly turned down Microsoft and then almost single-handedly drove the company into the ground?

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