Word: fooling
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...best talent but doesn’t rely solely on that,” sophomore Bret Voith said. “And, David is the leader who’s there with us, doing the same swim sets, always giving 100%. No one can go to practice and fool around and not see how hard the captains are working...
...Sudan, where Kenya has supported a secessionist resistance movement oppossed to the northern Sudanese-dominated government in Khartoum. The fact that such a shipment might contravene international arms embargoes might help explain why the Faina, traveling with minimal security on board, presented itself as an unremarkable cargo freighter - to fool officials along its route as well as pirates. Of more concern to East Africa's regional security, recent reports from north and south Sudan have suggested both sides are currently re-equipping their militaries. A revival of the decades-long north-south civil war would reopen one of Africa...
...could set M*A*S*H in the Persian Gulf, which would be interesting. That show was always a very sharp commentary on American foreign policy. But it was often undermined by that terrible laugh track they used to have on it, which would fool you into thinking the show wasn't as incisive or clever as it actually...
Docs are routinely called in to adjudicate these matters - to tell the patient that he or she is cured and has to go back to work - when companies want their employees back. But the sad truth is that within our medico-legal system, any doc would be a fool, and a soon-to-be bankrupt fool, if he thinks he can force a patient to return to work against his will...
...only major consumer market in which how much you'll pay someone depends on your belief about how much someone else will pay you. In this market, prices go up when people believe they will continue to go up. To restore confidence would mean restoring belief in the greater fool. That shouldn't be hard. It's built into human nature. This is why another term for a Ponzi or pyramid scheme is a confidence trick...