Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They do not recognize that they've reproducedextravagant stories that are easy to get people toconfabulate," says Richard J. Ofshe, a socialpsychologist at the University of California atBerkeley. "Hypnosis is a wonderfully powerful andinteresting method of influence, and not torecognize that can be very foolish...
...Personal Responsibility bill of 1995, approved by the House last week, would save at least $66 billion by the year 2001 by limiting eligibility for welfare to five years in a lifetime and requiring recipients to go back to work after two years on the dole. It was probably foolish for Republicans to think they could save money by "reforming" welfare; but party leaders blundered badly when they offered a "technical correction" to their welfare bill last week, diverting nearly $70 billion in savings to pay for cuts in taxes on businesses, corporations and the controversial child credit...
Hurlbut proctor Darren Walker '92, either braver or more foolish than most, boasts, "I open umbrellas inside," Yet Walker admits he is "aware of it every time that...
...attempt to "trick" a board inspector into believing I lived in a house in Harvard Square. I would have had no motive whatsoever in doing so, and given the very public fact that I had resided for some years in Harvard Yard, I would have been foolish to suggest otherwise to any city official. The Crimson's statement that "the board found Light guilty of deceiving an inspector" is careless misrepresentation. It implies both that I have faced some form of tribunal and that a legal determination has been made. Neither is true...
...displayed in the Science Center. We hadn't realized The Crimson had the luxury of replacing editorial space with tabloid gossip. We guess you couldn't even call it that--though the cattiness is there, most columns do a bit more research into their subject to avoid looking foolish after publication...