Word: foolish
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...media into a less-interesting missing-persons adventure. But while dature may abhor a vacuum, dark media suspicions flower in one. Condit's public pose - the politician's equivalent of pulling your coat over your head - has left the hordes one of two impressions: of a cowardly (and foolish) innocent or a cagey monster...
...year, by their teachers, their parents and their friends. It probably won't hurt to bribe schools to add character to the things they try to teach (and $50 million a year is less than one half of one percent of the proposed education budget). But it'd be foolish to think a limited federal program can turn lousy teachers and parents into positive role models...
...MAKE FOOLISH PERSONAL DECISIONS. Hold on to your house. Lots of people think, I'll sell the house and move someplace where I can get another for one-third the price. But you are not likely to know people there or even know for a while how to meet people who can help you in the new location...
...folks who are freaked out by genetically modified foods, who won't drink cow's milk laced with growth hormones or touch diet colas sweetened with aspartame. Since we have so many hang-ups about the purity of what we eat and drink, you'd think that any company foolish enough to add substances whose quantity and quality are notoriously difficult to control to their snacks or beverages would quickly founder. Instead the exact opposite is true. In the U.S. last year, according to the market-research firm Frost and Sullivan, consumers bought $700 million of drinks spiked with echinacea...
...lost? Where is the last class, the best friend, the last snack stolen from the dining hall? Nothing remains; we forgot to take pictures and now we find memories must suffice, fade as they may. The picture lies, anyway; must hides behind the edges, as deadlines loomed and worries, foolish now, haunt its shadows. At best, pictures can serve as talismans, as the hidden corners are painted in the warm light of memory...