Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University made an extremely unwise move in deciding to drop its appeal against the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). President Bok now appears foolish after investing Harvard's reputation and moral weight against unionizing Harvard's more than 3500 pink-collar workers...
Conservative efforts to draw the Democratic Party to the right are foolish and ill-considered. They will begin to speak of Dukakis as though he never had a shot at appealing to moderate and conservative voters, and blame his nomination on liberal special interests within the party...
Both Democrats and Republicans agreed Dukakis would win the poll. "We'd be foolish to expect a Bush win," said David R. Ackley '91, co-chair of Harvard Students for Bush...
...smoke, more than a dozen of his contemporaries, including Presidential Hopefuls Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt, rushed forward to admit that they too had succumbed to reefer madness. Most confessions were formulaic: "I once tried pot as an experiment. I did not enjoy it, and I deeply regret my foolish behavior." Few ambitious baby boomers are willing to talk honestly about what they learned from '60s-era dabbling in soft drugs for fear of sounding as if they were about to check in to the Betty Ford Clinic...
...selection of Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Indiana) as his running mate does is to highlight the vice president's glaring weaknesses as a candidate. The pick was a foolish one that has Democrats celebrating and many Republicans muttering under their breath in disgust...