Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forgive the delay, what with the shuttle, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, the stop at Random House to be cleared by the p.r. department, and the general rule of life that if anything can go wrong, it will. "Four hours. You should have allowed four hours. Anything less is dumb. I was 15 minutes early today...
Bradford's friend Jordan Gulas has remained loyal to bucks and sneakers. Tevas, he says, are "for dumb hippie kids who can't afford shoes...
They promise to boost the brain, but is it dumb to try them...
...Bill Willoughby needs to be mentally sharp at all times. Unfortunately, his 15-hour shuttles to Europe or Asia often leave him feeling more like he left his brain in San Francisco. "In this business," he says, "no matter how tired you are, if you start talking and sound dumb, it's no deal...
...representation. They may be defended by court-appointed lawyers who are either young and inexperienced or old and broken down; either way, these attorneys rarely have experience with the intricacies of habeas law -- perhaps the most complex part of criminal procedure. Where once the Supreme Court protected defendants from dumb or lazy lawyers, now defendants pay the price for their attorneys' mistakes. "It means," says Esther Lardent, director of the American Bar Association's Post-Conviction Death Penalty Representation Project, "the worse someone's trial lawyer is, the less likely they are to get review...