Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...church and that Lyons has to go -- whether or not the feds lock him up. "To drag millions of people through all this mud is a shame," said the Rev. Charles Kenyotta Tuesday. "In the 118 years of our existence, we've never had a president this dumb." Joe Lieberman would say amen to that...
...most catastrophic consequence of the Big One, though, won't be property damage; it will be loss of life. It could easily have happened already, in fact, except for pure dumb luck. The Weather Channel and CNN's round-the-clock coverage notwithstanding, hurricane forecasting is not as precise as people like to believe. Storms are capricious. Indeed, the National Hurricane Center's warnings, issued 24 hours before landfall, are subject to a 90-mile error in either direction...
...cell phones come with a built-in pager? My phone, which is by no means extraordinary, even allows people to send me text messages or e-mail. The two-way pager--or enhanced pager--is supposed to save the messaging industry because it turns the once proud but dumb beeper into something that talks back...
Clinton had a little fun Intern fun, it was dumb Clinton had a little fun It was against the rules...
...this boardroom tell-all generating more buzz than a Yahoo IPO? Surely everybody already suspects that the Internet bull market is a shell game. But who would have guessed that one of the minor players, having failed to find money dumb enough to make him rich, would get his payback with so deft a pen? Nobody comes off clean in this vengeful little book, not the venomous heirs of Robert Maxwell nor the philistine publishers of Windows magazine nor the executives at Time Inc. (where the author worked briefly as a consultant). "I'm a writer," Wolff tells his business...