Word: dumbness
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...this tactic says something even worse about the stock that these senators put in the intelligence of the American electorate. They honestly think that voters are too dumb to see through the base political motivation for their vote...
...have come at a price. Not only did bankers lose many loyal customers by withholding credit, they also inadvertently opened the door to a herd of nonbank competitors, who stampeded into the lending market. "The banking industry didn't see this threat," says Furash. "They are being fat, dumb and happy. They didn't realize that banking is essential to a modern economy, but banks...
...rock band than a Marxist model. Yet Robaina, at 37, exemplifies the new face of Cuba. Two months ago, Fidel Castro surprised Havana by picking the man he affectionately calls Robertico, a math teacher who speaks only Spanish, as Foreign Minister. U.S. diplomats dismissed him as "dynamic but dumb." Havana's bureaucrats were speechless: in his previous job as head of the Union of Communist Youth, Robaina had wooed the young with discos and salsa music -- and those T shirts. Even Fidel had a public laugh wondering how Robaina might dress for an appearance at the United Nations. But Castro...
...were teetering on the branch above you, would you race down the side of the tree just ahead of the plummeting vehicle, or would you move sensibly to the other side of the tree? But that is just another horror-movie tradition Spielberg observes: smart people doing really dumb things...
...Dylan, it made him seem with it; when Reagan had Candice Bergen and Andy Warhol to state dinners, the effect was a certain (cynical) black-tie inclusiveness. This President, however, is not being calculating enough; his omigosh pleasure at hanging around with celebrities is too palpable. It seems particularly dumb for Clinton, whose candidacy was almost wrecked by allegations of past adulteries, to consort regularly with the Sharon Stones of the world. The show people mean well, and Clinton is guilty mainly of excessive sociability. But it was well-meaning, intelligent Mike Medavoy who, one day a few years...