Word: dumbness
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...other female employees to retrieve coins from his front pants pocket. He once suggested that Harris accompany him to the local Holiday Inn to negotiate her raise. He also regularly responded to her with remarks like "You're a woman; what do you know?" and called her "a dumb-ass woman." Said Harris: "It got to the point that I didn't have any choice but to confront him. I had had enough." When he failed to change, she quit. "I felt so hopeless," she said. "I just can't tell you how terrible it was." She also sued. Lower...
...however, NAFTA has picked up an enormous load of symbolic freight. Opponents -- most prominently labor unions and Ross Perot's movement -- see, not entirely wrongly, the U.S. economy being hurt by growing foreign competition, and view NAFTA, less logically, as the latest in a succession of what Perot calls "dumb trade agreements" that have taken a grievous toll of American jobs. Proponents regard the pact as an unavoidable necessity if the U.S. is going to compete with the trade blocs forming in Europe and Asia. Rejection, they argue, would be a futile and dangerous attempt to wall...
...more dynamic and appealing are Judi Mavon as Rosa Bud and Adam Feldman as John Jasper. Mavon has transformed Rosa Bud from a rather dumb ingenue part as the object of everyone's affections and turned her into an animated, intelligent woman. Mavon is so consistently funny and engaging that her occasional missed high note (her singing is otherwise quite good) is more than forgivable. By the beginning of the second act she has established her character so well that her line to Jasper, "you are a bad bad bad man," actually seems plausible...
...year by a computer maker to put together more PCs for export to Mexico have no idea that might happen. Then too, there is a vague feeling that the U.S. has often let itself be played for a sucker in trade deals. Perot has harped on that, charging that "dumb" negotiations in the 1980s cost millions of U.S. jobs. The Administration did not help itself by choosing initially to fight on narrow economic grounds (read: jobs) rather than invoke the foreign-policy considerations that actually are more important. It also has been somewhat hampered in making what could...
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