Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outsider, though I obviously am." Nonetheless, Moses is also quick to admit he doesn't "have problems with certain kinds of elitism--putting together the best people, based on talent and merit. But elitism based on connections, and on the label on the back of a tie, is foolish," he says...
...aspirations, others do not, and the search should be for where biology pushes mankind and where man can resist the push." He also admits that "genetic constraints evolved during the millions of years of prehistory, under conditions that to a large extent no longer exist." It would be foolish, he says, to rear as many healthy children as possible in today's crowded world, no matter what the genetic push...
Even if Smith used Spalding's manuscript, why would Smith have been so foolish as to retain pages of a known manuscript within a work he said was inspired by God? Davis & Co. answer -somewhat lamely-that Smith was so poverty-stricken that he and his aides might have stuck sections of Spalding's manuscript between pages of their own in order to save paper, which was scarce and expensive in those days...
...feel your article "Arming for the 21st Century" [May 23] came at an appropriate time. With the Russians arming to the teeth, it would be foolish of us not to take countermeasures. I hope we will continue to develop our conventional arms and also the more sophisticated ones, like the Bl. It will be an expensive burden, but worth...
Nickel-wise but pound-foolish...