Sure, we argue with others about why our team is better, but at the end of it all, this is normally a peaceful exchange and personal attacks are left out unless you're a jerk who takes it all too seriously.
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Ms. Ephron's Mike McAlary is a hard-drinking tough-guy Irish reporter who lets fame and money go to his head and turns into a jerk, and Mr. Hanks, here as always, is too ingratiating ever to let himself become truly unlikable.
Chief SIZER: We've just gone through our in-service training annually, and we had instructors who really talked about that, clueing officers in that disrespectful communication is often interpreted by minorities as racial bias when in fact the officer may be acting like a jerk, and maybe he or she routinely acts like a jerk.
Winter isn't without sympathy for the 26-year-old, who he says has suffered a lot during a seven-month layoff from the game, but a knee jerk-type reaction by the tennis authorities is unwarranted.
Doctors now and women are really - they have a kind of a knee-jerk response to the big estrogen study that was conducted a couple of years ago, and estrogen comes off sounding like toxic waste - estrogen replacement therapy.
What we don't want is a knee-jerk, blanket policy of decommissioning just because someone thinks it is a good idea without the evidence to support the move.
That decision seems to be a knee-jerk reaction based on an emotional response to the spill, and made without a full appreciation of the consequences which will adversely impact tens of thousands of hard working people who are engaged in the industry.
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Expect a Romney victory to spur short-term dollar strength, which could come in tandem with a knee-jerk rally in equities.
Government bond prices fell initially--with the yield on the benchmark 8.15% 2022 bond rising to 7.80% in a knee-jerk reaction from 7.74% earlier, before recovering to end at 7.74%.
What the Newtown tragedy should do is force the NRA to shift its focus from a knee-jerk strategy of simply protecting assault weapons, to advocating for more concealed or open carry laws.
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Yet the Dow, which could have reasonably plunged 300 or 400 points in at least a temporary knee jerk reaction to each of those three unexpected negative reports, paid little to no attention.
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So, I think we should make an effort to have a real discussion and not just a knee-jerk reaction when some of us say that the comedy stage has no place for sexism, racism and homophobia.
Mr. TED WEISBERG (President, Seaport Securities): Well, it's characterized with a lot of volatility, unfortunately most of it on the down side though the markets did open dramatically lower - sort of a knee-jerk reaction, I think, to both Asia and Europe.
The company noted that European coal generation increased 13% in June over the last 12 months as a result of nuclear cutbacks, a knee-jerk reaction to nuclear power given the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, and higher gas prices, further feeding demand for coal.
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So we shouldn't be spooked by this notion that, well, is now the time to take seriously in an intelligent way, not in a knee-jerk way, the challenge of financial regulatory reform so that you don't have banks that are too big to fail and you're not putting taxpayers at risk and you're not putting the economy at risk -- now is the time to do it.
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Those created their usual knee-jerk reactions of a one or two-day triple-digit move by the Dow, again giving traders opportunities for quick in and out trades in one direction or the other.
But after a while, this knee-jerk condescension toward neo-nominalists (parents with an obsessive need to give their children weird or unusual names) becomes wearying.
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When Santa leaves and the door closes, he could run over and jerk on the string a few times so it sounds like the reindeer are on the roof at the back of the house.
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Personally, I would really like to see more umpire consultations after a close call rather than the knee jerk reaction for instant replay.
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But even as we built airplanes and cars and weapons of astounding reliability and precision, they are still at the mercy of a madman with a gun, or a moron with the wrong fuel or jerk with poor judgment.
The report argues that knee-jerk responses to past tragedies have led to a defensive child protection system that tries to prevent mistakes by setting performance indicators and procedures for what needs to happen.
We turned the acceleration on and the "jerk" down, so things would be a little less aggressive -- it also dawned on us that the table we were running it on might not have been a stable enough foundation, itself quaking during printing.
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Three, should there be any different style of policing, those are questions, they are not knee-jerk reactions because the one thing that I think a grown-up politician doesn't do is just come on the day after and say I've got all the answers because if so it would have been easy enough to do.
In one, he captures the experience of being from a "jerkwater" town: a village so small that steam-train crews had to "jerk" water up from streams or from people holding buckets along the tracks because there was no water tower from which to refill the engine.
The pattern has been a steady rise when European news flow is minimal, followed by knee-jerk corrections when the debt crisis flares up.
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The net effect will be to jerk the easy-money football away from Airline Charlie and produce a painful collision between his backside and the hard ground of economic reality.
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These two factors are key to the success of a company, and yet are most threatened by poorly thought-out, knee-jerk reactions to shifting market trends.
As they sat in the audience, their father talked about being a teen-ager in Vienna, watching the Russian Yury Vlasov clean-and-jerk nearly five hundred pounds.
Lisandro's arrival in France's culinary capital was no knee-jerk reaction to the departure of the home-grown Benzema - it was a transfer two years in the making.
Then, as if they had reached for a sizzling clothesline in the middle of an electrical storm, one by one they began to jerk, convulsing in the grip of unseen power.
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