Word: mindlessness
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Such corruption may be terrible, but the abuse of private property which occurs when large segments of the economy are forced underground by mindless laws against entrepreneurship is the real scandal. Those working in the informal sector in Chile and Russia are aften the poorest of the poor...
...endless (and generally mindless) debate over affirmative action has been about as productive as the PGA drive to make sure that every country club has its token Black...
...perhaps the most absurdly gruesome update of a classic '50s comic, Howard Cruse regrets "Raising Nancies." The story twists the classic comic-book mail order ad, for pet Sea Monkeys. The narrator details how the humanoid, but mindless, Nancy creatures grew from play-things into nuisances and how he finally sold them to the "Acme Used Nancy Collection Service." The narrator rues his error when he learns that the Nancies end up in concentration-camp "Nancy Farms," where their "pelts" are harvested for fur coats...
...skeptics still doubt that the 1980s were an era of mindless greed on Wall Street, Dennis Levine's account of his rise and fall as an inside trader should set them straight. Levine, a megadeal meister for the now bankrupt Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, raked in more than $10 million through the simple expedient of buying and selling stock with the help of inside tips. Arrested in 1986 and jailed for 17 months in a minimum-security prison, he led prosecutors to arbitrager Ivan Boesky, who, in turn, helped them reel in the biggest fish of all -- junk...
There is, however, among the vast majority of mindless "cammers," a rare but growing breed of dedicated enthusiasts who are not content simply to point and shoot. Weighed down with auxiliary lights, remote microphones and jury- rigged dollies, they don't just videotape weddings (or birthdays or bar mitzvahs), they choreograph them. Then, back in their basement studios, they process their footage through an array of cutting-edge technology to produce video that is just as polished as the best seen on national TV -- and for a fraction of the cost...