Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Young fathers can be so busy--so dumb," writes Newspaperman and National % Public Radio Personality Gordon Baxter. He should know; he was one. But that was long ago, and in this peppery account of his relationship with new Daughter Jenny, born when Baxter was 54 and already a grandfather by his "first litter," the Texan turns the tables. Although a reluctant father- to-be ("Lamaze, LaLeche . . . LeHusband"), the good ole boy becomes a good, if old, dad. Baxter stays home to write in a woodsy cabin with his second wife Diane, nearly 20 years his junior, and he and Jenny...
...sweeter Coke after just finishing an ad campaign that said Coke was less sweet than Pepsi? And who would be stupid enough to change Coke one year before its 100th anniversary, thereby passing up an unprecedented advertising blitz for Coke's centennial? And who would be dumb enough to switch to a formula that only six out of 10 preferred to an American tradition...
...middle of August. Wigglesworth A-11 was going to be my haven for that dreadful freshman year. I was assigned three roommates and figured. I still don't know why, that there would be two singles and a double to house four of us. It wasn't such a dumb assumption. The room was costing my parents well over two grand. Besides, I had seen Brideshead Revisted and figured rooming at Harvard could not be drastically different from that at Oxford, the butler excluded, of course...
...growing delicacy of the issue provoked some testiness in both Washington and Jerusalem. The White House was particularly irked at Israel's initial offer to consider releasing the captives if Reagan made such a request. "That was a very dumb signal," said one Administration official. "It confirmed what the Arabs have already begun to think about the Israelis since the prisoner exchange," he added, referring to the perception of lowered resolve in Jerusalem created by last month's one-sided deal. For his part, Rabin at one point publicly complained of Washington's "unofficial pressure designed to make us volunteer...
...plastic credit cards that millions of people use every day have at least one feature in common: in technological terms, they are all dumb. Soon, however, many people will be carrying "smart" cards equipped with tiny electronic brains similar to those now found in everything from cars to computers. French scientists have developed a card containing a microchip that can store at least 100 times as much data as the magnetic strips on standard charge plates...