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Paul Krugman: In Despair Over Obama's Financial Rescue Plan

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Re: Paul Krugman: In Despair Over Obama's Financial Rescue Plan

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DenisM wrote: post #4
j2d2 wrote: post #2

Articles like this might be better suited for newmogul.com run by the infamous nickb.

Infamous - "Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious." What's so bad about nickb? He seems like a real nice fellow...

NickB is great. It was meant to be facetious because of his rank in the leaders list.

Re: Paul Krugman: In Despair Over Obama's Financial Rescue Plan

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Post by DenisM »

jibiki wrote: post #8
DenisM wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Infamous - "Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious." What's so bad about nickb? He seems like a real nice fellow...

I can't figure out where you're coming from here. People I know use "infamous" facetiously all the time, and I almost never hear it used literally.

I'm coming from the dictionary, which I cited.
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