Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the auction houses trade in volume and compete intensively for material, they can sometimes be an unwitting conduit for fakes, particularly in ill-documented but now increasingly expensive areas of art. Few forgers would be dumb enough to try to send a fake Manet, let alone a forgery of a living artist like Jasper Johns, through Sotheby's or Christie's. But where fakes abound, some will inevitably turn up at auction; and where millions of dollars abound, fakes will breed...
...turkeys are really pretty dumb. About 10 or 12 guys with these things that look like featherdusters drive them into the killing shed. They have this golden opportunity to get away, but they don't," he says...
Gorbachev Calls Marx `As Dumb As a Doorknob,' Lauds Conspicuous Consumption...
Bush's romance with the right has shaped his approach to foreign policy. The President dismissed Democratic complaints that he has been slow to respond to the dramatic changes taking place in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with the comment, "I don't want to do anything dumb." That remark has several translations, among them: "I don't want the anti-Communist right to accuse me of giving away the store...
CUTTING CAPITAL GAINS. A broad tax break for capital gains, as the House approved and President Bush supports, would in the long run be expensive and dumb. Applying the break to investments we already own does nothing to encourage us to make new ones. Any tax break should be on future investments only...