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Word: foolishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short, believing Hussein will live up to a compromise, or that he will not continue to be a regional and global menace in the future, is foolish. The best thing about this brush with war--if that is what the posturing and strategizing of the past few weeks turns out to be--may be the attention that has been refocused on the dangers posed by Baghdad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brokering With Iraq | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Erica Morehouse, 18, pulls into the McDonald's lot at the Roxford exit of the Golden State Freeway. She's in a nail-polish-red 1989 Camaro with her friend Lisa Montes, 17. It's Thelma and Louise right here in hot-rod central, and they'll race anyone foolish enough to take them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Dean All Over Again | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

Newsweek looks foolish. But was it really so foolish? Even in the pages of a rival, gloating is not called for. TIME was chasing the same story and never had it to throw away, so hats off to the competition. Furthermore, Newsweek's "mistake" was in being more cautious than Drudge about publishing extremely damaging allegations about the President of the U.S. Even if those allegations are true, was the caution misplaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: In Defense of Matt Drudge | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...maybe Newsweek was right to get it second and Drudge to get it first. Maybe both staked out their proper places in the media food chain. There will be plenty of times when caution will be rewarded and uncritical insta-printing will look foolish. Or maybe they were both wrong: Newsweek to spike a great scoop and Drudge to publish it. The former view is more appealing, and I'm 80% sure it's right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: In Defense of Matt Drudge | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...building] is better--much more space, more desks, more offices, fewer safety hazards," he says. "It certainly enables a better paper to be put out. But certainly anyone who denies a little something was lost is being foolish...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Building Gets Facelift, Loses `Gritty Newsroom' Feel | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

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