Word: foolish
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...They can be as foolish or stupid in [their] hiring,” Riley said of Harvard. “The debate over qualifications should not be our focus. Your focus should always be on race and gender. Where is the evidence that race or gender had anything to do with this...
...would be foolish to pretend we won't do any environmental damage. You do a project as big as this, you cause environmental damage. Fact!" says Peter Goldston, a booming-voiced Australian who is technical director of Nam Theun Power Co., the consortium building the project. "But our project allows us to mitigate some of the damage." Goldston, 61, has worked on seven dam projects in Australia, Cambodia and the Philippines, dating back to 1966. "We did some terrible things during that time, no doubt about it," Goldston says. "But times have changed, so we have had to change...
...just doing what we have always been doing," he says with the humility of a people known throughout Japan as kenjitsu (rock solid). Compared with residents of Osaka, where personal and corporate bankruptcy rates are among the highest in the nation, Nagoyans are frugal. Local companies resisted making foolish bets during the bubble years, hence avoiding most of the damage from the crash. To this day, Nagoya companies sport some of the lowest debt loads in the country...
...results. A Foreign Ministry spokesman says the remains were consumed in the tests, so there is no way to redo them. Yokota's father, Shigeru Yokota, tells TIME he doesn't really understand the issues surrounding the DNA tests but that he's "angry that Japan now looks foolish in its negotiations with North Korea." In a toughly worded editorial in its March 17 issue, Nature said an inconclusive test result might be "uncomfortable," but urged the Japanese government to get serious with its science. "Dealing with North Korea is no fun," it wrote, "but it doesn't justify breaking...
That's a lot of work for a guy whose specialty is acting stupid. "A lot of people play dumb people," says The Office's executive producer Greg Daniels. "But Steve has a way of playing intelligent, articulate people who make foolish choices. People who on the face of it seem smart but once you look deeper have no clue. Which is cool for comedy that's more subtle." Carell is helped along by a Midwestern retro-adult face, made not so much for comedy as it is for telling people to get back to work. He's clever enough...