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By publicly sacrificing The Avengers , a sure flop in any case, studio executives flattered the critics by pretending to be deeply afraid of them.
"I told him I was very flattered by the suggestion but that I was committed to run for re-election as governor of Illinois--"
Flattered, Spock was also flustered to discover just how dependent on his advice his fans had become.
"I'm extremely flattered by the speculation," but a worthier candidate will certainly come along" (Bauer).
I replied that I'd taken several econometrics courses as an undergraduate and had spent a year working at a statistical consultancy firm in Washington, D.C., called Mathematica Policy Research . At the time, he seemed rather pleased to hear this and flattered me that few reporters had similar grounding in statistical theory.