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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Princeton economists found that every additional year of education at any stage increased income an average 16%. If so, expanding the availability of education -- as through the proposed National Service Trust Fund -- is just a smart investment, while the Reagan-era cutbacks may have been penny-wise and dollar-dumb. Liberal? Conservative? Does it matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pretty Good Society | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...such a radical step? "We were the only environment that was ready for a complete change. All they needed was a cowboy dumb enough to say he'd do it," says Rock. "America's oldest nameplate is going to become America's newest car company." But Rock is a smart enough cowboy to recognize that his challenge is a tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cowboy Driving Oldsmobile | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...show gives Leguizamo an actor's tour de force. He plays all six roles, ranging from the piggy schoolboy Miggy to bone-dumb Desert Storm veteran Crazy Willie to their ditsy mother Gladyz, a rare drag part shaped with candor rather than cant. He also depicts a surgically handicapped brother who has been shunted away to an institution; a bleach-blond brother in deep denial about everything from his origins to his sexuality; and the clan patriarch, feared by all the others as an epic bully but visible in the final sequence as just a hollow never-was clinging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thumbing A Hispanic Nose | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...Fall began with "Justify My Love." The video sucked, frankly, no matter how much we were supposed to be impressed by homoerotic sadomasochism--or whatever it was. And then came your embarrassing performance on "Nightline." Who would have thought you could be so dumb? There you were, stumbling and sputtering away, mumbling banalities about free speech and tolerance, insisting that 10 years olds should learn about what is essentially pornography. But that was only the beginning...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: An Open Letter to Madonna | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

...feel dumb if cash fails to burn a hole in your pocket. Feel powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: How to Invest In a Clinton Win | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

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