Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people: too dumb to see through the smoke, too emotional to resist the "hot-button" ads. As one disgusted commentator put it (on this page), "The voters are idiots...
Today, the 22-year-old Elkies' resume is enough to strike anyone but a Nobel laureate dumb with awe. By the time he graduated first in his class from Columbia at age 19, Elkies had triumphed in several national and international mathematics competitions. In 1987, after garnering his Ph.D. in mathematics in two years, he was named a Harvard Junior Fellow and is currently conducting research in number theory...
...acquisition followed a long, hard battle and came in the wake of last year's attempt to take over another U.S. publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. William Jovanovich restructured the company to thwart Maxwell's anticipated $2 billion bid. "Jovanovich killed the company. He's a dumb Croat coal miner. Had I met him, I would have told him so," Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where...
Committing penalties "is dumb football," Berry said. "Let the other team play dumb football, and we will accept all donations...
...affect the people determined to vote against the Democrats because of race), Dukakis should have shared the platform with him, saying the Democratic Party has nothing to hide -- unlike the Republicans, who were smuggling Dan Quayle into grade schools where girls could squeal and boys could ask questions as dumb as the answers. By the time Dukakis began to respond, it was by desperately imitating Bush's first flag rallies and by producing mean copies of the Horton ad, substituting victims of the federal furloughs (something Dukakis had earlier said he would...