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3. "After the Nasdaq toyed with the 3,000 level on Tuesday before closing just below it, technical traders came out of the woodwork to say that breaking through 3,000 was going to be tough, because it was a 'resistance level' for the index.
Then again, considering that 98 percent of all pop songs are gender-neutral (though Pat Buchanan toyed with "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun"), the number seems to have been especially picked for the blithe insouciance it shows toward the Dole campaign's "gender gap."
In an editorial, the paper toyed with the idea of putting homosexuals into separate units "like the Sacred Band of Thebes," but said that "a company comprised wholly of homosexuals could easily become a target for the rest of the Army."
Höch pointedly or cavalierly toyed with this concept and eventually dispensed with it altogether.
After Kincaid moved away, he grew up to become an irresponsible pothead Rastafarian, a boastful lady-killer, a gardener who toyed with becoming a singer and gave himself the stage name "Sugar."