Word: mindlessness
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...other 90%, which presumably has made reasoned judgments about value, has a lot more to say about where the S&P 500 is going. Yes, prices relative to earnings on big stocks like General Electric and Coca-Cola are the highest they've ever been. That smacks of mindless index buying, not buying based on value. But Blu Putnam, president of CDC Investments, a money-management firm, notes that blue chips deserve the high P/Es because they have doubled their rate of earnings growth over the past five years. That makes them more attractive relative to the rest...
...cover-up concerns the Air Force's waste of taxpayer money in releasing spy balloons in the U.S. instead of in Europe or Asia and dropping dwarf dummies just to make sure that gravity still exists. When the extraterrestrials officially land, we should sue for damages arising from the mindless hysteria they have caused. BRUCE C. JEWETT Belmont, Calif...
...exactly like the preceding generation, which was a carbon copy of the generation before it. In the 1930s, when I was a child, adults were saying the next generation would be different. Well, it was not! The human brain, for good or bad, evolves very slowly. The mindless rhetoric of "Great Xpectations" could be avoided if anyone of any generation read a little history! DOUGLAS KELLER Hollywood...
...Levin--who speak for his worth. Jonathan, 31, was murdered last week in his home. For his family the grief is personal, unbearable. For his students the loss is nearly as great. That one of the two accused killers turns out to be a former student provides an especially mindless end for a man whose work concerned reason and learning. He was tortured and shot to death...
...father, and Mendoza as the Devil himself. But this Hell is the refuge of people bored by Heaven, such as the Statue; the Devil is an amiable aesthete with a nihilistic view of man's destiny; and Don Juan himself is a man bored by the mindless hedonism of Hell and consumed with the idea of a Superman--a being detached from crude physicalities and endowed with a perfection of intellect that marks the final step of human evolution. Don Juan and the Devil engage in a lengthy debate that ends with Don Juan's going off to Heaven...