Word: fool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supremely foolish to reject any Soviet overtures to limit Star Wars development, as at least some in the Pentagon desire. The problem is that the Administration's contention that space-based defense offers a better avenue to deterrence than mutual assured destruction ignores the scientific consensus that a fool-proof missile defense would be impossible to achieve and prohibitively expensive. Proceeding indiscriminately with Star Wars development only offers the hope of a budget-draining resumption of the arms race in outer space, because, as the history of the nuclear arms race has shown so well, any attempt to gain superiority...
...putting on everything from dresses to fur coats. The tags, which can be conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite off the devices. Sensormatic of Boca Raton, Fla., has some 200 million tags in 40,000 detection systems in stores around the world. Shops originally hid the tags inside each piece of merchandise, but the devices were so successful that too many criminals were...
MORE CRITICAL to the play's success, however, are the lively and powerful performances of the other members of the cast, who work both individually and as a troupe to keep the audience laughing throughout. As the fool Osino, Gary Armagnac blends just the right amount of wit and wisdom to successfully mock love and the gentrified aristocracy. Jack Aranson (Sir Toby Belch) and Francis Cuka (Maria) also provide the play with some of its most amusing--and bawdy--humor in their defiance of courtly propriety. And by far the most hilarious performance of the evening is Joseph Costa...
...talked like a record played at triple speed. As the rivalry has heated up, so has the competitive tone of the fast-delivery advertising. Purolator calls Federal the "inflexible express" and Airborne taunts, "Federal Express does better advertising, so Airborne has to give you better service." Federal retorts, "Why fool around with anyone else...
...Fair. According to the union, white male white collar support staff members make, on average, $14,324. Black women in the same types of jobs make $12,603, despite an average of 1.4 years greater experience at Yale. The university's own figures show no such discrimination, but also fool no one at the university or elsewhere. Fair, after all, played a key role in the original development of the statistical techniques Yale says he isn't using correctly...