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Does this mean... (Score:2)

by jjohn (22)

Ask someone who did have the extra minute and the answer tended to be, "Not so bad".
Does this study imply that if George W. Bush gets another term in office, I'll actually start to like him? What strange, fickle organisms we are.
- Re:Does this mean... (Score:2)
  
  by vsergu (505)
  
  Only if he doesn't do anything annoying, disturbing, or terrifying (other than being in office) during that term.
  - Re:Does this mean... (Score:1)
    
    by waltman (335) on 2003.01.05 18:39 (#15766) Journal
    
    Only if he doesn't do anything annoying, disturbing, or terrifying (other than being in office) during that term.
    You mean aside from what he's already done?
    
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    - Re:Does this mean... (Score:2)
      
      by vsergu (505)
      
      Exactly: "those who had the extra minute (irrespective of how excruciating the earlier part of the operation had been) had a consistently more favourable reaction afterwards" (emphasis added).

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