Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tough to come up with a name," says Michael D. Preston '95, guitarist for the band. "You don't want to sound to serious because you're a college band, but you don't want to sound too foolish either...
First to substance. It is obvious, or should be, that the only thing worse than breaking a stupid promise is keeping it. Clinton is right to say it would be foolish to keep those pledges that changing circumstances dictate should be shaved or abandoned. Consider a few currently causing the media apoplexy...
...amount of action could do that and it is foolish to believe otherwise. Over time, it is hard to tell what myriad of legislation may eventually come out in favor of gays in Colorado, but if Harvard does not accept this gift while it is being so graciously offered, it will never have the chance to accept it again, no matter what Colorado's stance towards gays may someday...
Even some of the deficit hawks among Clinton's advisers concede the political logic of early deficit spending. It would be politically foolish, says an aide, to "start our Administration on a negative note" by not only raising taxes on the rich but also cutting spending on popular middle-class subsidies and "creating a lot of enemies...
...till we have no margins. It's no fun to think of this place as a lavish summer camp, or to ponder those restored, fortified gates re-assuming their imperious, exclusive positions; that's all the class of 1877 could come up with, really? If others had not been foolish we should...