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...price goes beyond the poor functioning of the economy now. Here we are, this great, wealthy, affluent nation, and we cannot afford to rebuild our highways or bridges. We cannot afford to have a really serious war on drugs. We cannot afford to improve our educational system. This is absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: America's Run-Down Economy A Slump That Won't Go Away | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...miles is in itself a revealing number, obviously cooked up by the ETS legal departments with some impressive foul-ups in mind. Of course, it is absurd to expect someone in Boston to write an important test at 9 a.m. in Amherst. (ETS will not, needless to say, give you a free 50 points for getting up at 5 a.m., or, even more needless to say, pay for your hotel or train fare...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: The Last Bastion of Bolshevism | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...find it quite absurd of Cloud to drag CLUH into a situation in which it has absolutely no connection, and to mention CLUH in his article even before he brought up my connection to the protest. Yet I would like to state publicly that the other members of the CLUH Executive Board have scheduled a meeting, without me present, to decide how the organization will respond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burstein: My Protest Doesn't Restrict Hoge's Academic Freedom | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...That's absurd. And it's dishonest to suggest that Huntington Library is somehow sanctioning plagiarism. The scrolls were not written by the editors, and they should not be allowed to play favorites with who gets access...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: That's Outrageous | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

...absurd to refuse to meet someone a hundred yards distance from a regular pickup point, when that person has explained that there is a clear danger in walking to the pickup point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stupid Rules in the Escort Service | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

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