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Six months later, the new department will finish taking on hundreds more employees from LAHSA, a joint city-county agency that has been derided for years by City Council members, county supervisors and other officials.

Its activists have been derided as attention-seeking zealots and vandals and it is loathed by many for its disruptive direct action tactics.

The agency estimated Musk saved an estimated $150 million from unsuspecting investors unaware of this as he built up his stake in the company he ultimately acquired and renamed X. Musk has derided the suit.

It is easy to forget that electric cars were once derided as slow, uninspiring and impractical, with minimal range between charges.

He spent quite a bit of time on the idea that his enemies had intimidated and derided Judge Aileen Cannon, who presided over the stolen classified documents case in Palm Beach, Florida.