Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dumb for a scholarship...
...debasing the competition of which he was a part. Mattingly is in all likelihood a more valuable hitter than Boggs, but to imply that he was cheated out of a batting title when the man who won it had over 600 plate appearances this season is just plain dumb...
...that penetrates the dustiest corral. Raised on a farm in the days of horsepower, Ray tells me he has picked prunes, fixed fence, driven heavy machinery and cowboyed -- anything to make a living -- but it was always the horse that remained dear to him. "People think the horse is dumb and they're smart. Well, I haven't met a human yet who compares to a horse...
Harvard was dumb to throw good money after bad in hopes of funding a dead horse. For the same $32 million it plans to spend, it could have built a brand new house--perhaps only half as ugly as Leverett or Mather--down by the River. With the money it would have spent on the shuttle bus year after year, it could have built another. Not that Harvard cares to spend any money on the shuttle bus now: after spending millions improving the quad houses, the University can't find thousands to run the shuttle on weekend days or past...
...Reagan may not be as dumb as he lets on. He knows that drug abuse peaked in the early 1970s and has been leveling off ever since. Yet, at the same time, he also knows that anti-drug hysteria is the perfect way to make Americans ignore the rest of his pernicious policies. Ignore the fact that his Administration has seen the poverty rate escalate to its highest level since the late 1960s; the fact that he won't introduce stricter sanctions against South Africa despite opposition from even his most steadfast supporters; the fact that his elevation of Associate...