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Word: stupidities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Khalilah T. Horton, age 14, likes her school. "It's the best middle school in Dorchester," she says. "We don't have violence. We don't fight, stab each other at the bus stop. We just don't think about all that stupid stuff...

Author: By Bryan D. Garsten, | Title: Khalilah Horton Goes to School | 5/12/1993 | See Source »

Professor Dan Ben-Amos, an expert in Black culture and a linguistics expert, corroborated Jacobowitz's contention that "water buffalo" was a derivation of the Yiddish word "behema" which means "water oxen" and is slang for a "stupid person" or "fool...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: The President and the Buffalo | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

Clinton is not stupid. He knows the dangers of the course he has taken. Why is he tempting fate...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Clinton's Fatal Balkan Trap | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...have our political hobbyhorses. One of mine, for example, has been tax reform: eliminate loopholes and lower the rates. Clinton's tax plan undoes much of tax reform. It not only raises rates but also reintroduces a variety of (in my view) stupid tax breaks for this or that business activity. But I ask myself, Is tax reform more important than curbing the deficit and reinvigorating the government? I swallow hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visiting A Place Called Hope | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...VIEWS ARE ECHOED BY VLADImir Ivanyushkin, a Moscow businessman. Says he: "If the Westerners keep giving us aid or credits, it's stupid. No matter what kind of government we have, communist, fascist or democratic, it's still going to be a Russian government, which means that all that aid will simply go down the drain, and nobody will ever find where it ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The First Aid Summit | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

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