Word: foolish
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...would be tragically foolish for the University to continue spending money on the same trajectory. It’s inevitable that Harvard has to change,” Jaeger says. “Is it possible to resolve financial challenges this deep without anybody being laid...
...approach is like a catchy tune you keep humming after hearing it on the radio. When applied, it immediately cuts down on foolish impulses. But the author, whose husband famously wrote the best seller Straight from the Gut, isn't discounting intuition. That's what governed her decision to dive--joblessly--into a new life with Jack. "I failed 10-10-10 because I was overwhelmed by events," Suzy admits now, with a touch of authorial embarrassment. "I was sort of standing in the middle of a field, and suddenly the skies opened up, and the skies fell down...
...will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.' A biblical passage adorning a PENTAGON REPORT on Saddam Hussein during the early phases of the war in Iraq in 2003, according to GQ writer Robert Draper, who claims Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld regularly included Scripture in reports submitted to President George W. Bush...
...resist international pressure to take more decisive action to counter the economic crisis. Among those arguing forcefully against any new stimulus packages is the Taxpayers' Federation. Holznagel says that in the early 1990s his organization kept to itself doubts about the big spending on reunification - it was politically foolish to do otherwise. But now, he says, "the situation is completely different. The danger is always that money is spent neither appropriately nor efficiently...
...Declaring its support for Georgia is a reasonable step for NATO, but demonstrating it in such a provocative manner—especially considering the current state of relations between NATO and Russia—is simply foolish. Since NATO is not prepared to—and should not—throw its full support behind Georgia in another war with Russia, then it should be careful that Russia doesn’t call its bluff...