Word: foolish
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...Germans are breathing a little easier, if not bubbling with optimism. "The big catastrophe - the fall into deflation - just did not happen," says Holger Schmieding, European economist for Bank of America. "It's more catastrophe avoided than a big upswing ahead." It would be foolish to assume that everything is suddenly fine. After all, the economy was in recession through the first half of 2003, and unemployment rose by 305,000 over the past year, bringing the jobless total to 10.4%. "What kind of upswing is it when you have increasing unemployment?" asks Ullrich Heilemann, vice president of the Rhine...
...desk beside his watch and glasses before leaping from the window of his 12th-floor office last week provided few clues to his motives. (Chung apologized to his family in a few scribbled lines, gave encouragement to a colleague and, in a note to his employees, wrote: "A foolish man does a foolish thing.") But few men in South Korea could have had more burdens to bear. Chung, one of eight sons of the late Chung Ju Yung, pioneering chaebolist and founder of the Hyundai group, had been demoted in the Hyundai empire from group chairman to overseer of Hyundai...
...often in his 15 months of virtual isolation since he was arrested in April 2002 after entering the country using a forged passport. Why would a man of his superior intellect, a man who holds doctorates from both the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard, do something so foolish? Why would a husband, a father with two small children and a comfortable home, act so recklessly? Why couldn't Yang have just stayed...
...Whatever the provocation, responsible leaders of the present government, preferring to act with forbearance, and on the basis of give and take, have always chosen to take action in moderation." Though few Burmese find the articles believable, many find them entertaining. "Some of the stories they told were so foolish, it was funny," says one Rangoon resident. Comedy is easy; freedom is hard...
...Thailand's other hit radio program doesn't do much to help its listeners at all. Instead, shock jock Veera Theerapat spends most of his on-air time ridiculing callers foolish enough to try to parry with Thailand's Howard Stern. At first, Bangkok denizens took offense at Veera's brassy attitude; this is, after all, a country where reserve and politeness are practically national characteristics. Newspapers chided Veera for bringing the worst of the West to the East. But Veera's direct approach soon caught on. "He always says just what he thinks," says engineer Chartchai Kaewsung, who tunes...