thumbs-down

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In Iraq, where more than 140,000 U.S. troops are stationed, people watching the inauguration in a café in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah cheered when Obama appeared on television but gave the thumbs-down when the cameras showed former U.S. president George W. Bush.

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  • To preface this article, yes it has been several months since Apple gave us the thumbs-down on FireWire by axing it from the latest round of MacBook updates (it survives on the MacBook Pro, but only in the less popular Firewire 800 form). —  Applelinks.com
  • Granted, it would have been difficult to secure those votes in the late-1960s and early-1970s, after the controversy over Barry Goldwater's thumbs-down reaction to the 1964 Civil Rights Act —  Notes From D. R.
  • Recently, the Obama administration gave a resounding thumbs-down to your viability plan, and a bankruptcy filing seems increasingly likely. —  BloggingStocks
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe doesn't open until Dec. 9, but Newsweek's Jeff Giles has already seen a rough cut of the film, and while he stops short of giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down review, he does offer this verdict: '' It's faithful to the novel, and only as Christian as you want it to be. '' —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Cuz last night I dreamt that I gave someone a thumbs-up by accident and I meant to give them a thumbs-down, but I was able to click the thumbs-down button and change my thumbs-up to a thumbs-down .... —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
 

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