Word: foolishly
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Yeltsin still represents as moderate a government as Russia is going to produce. But that highlights all the more clearly the limits of Russian moderation. It would be foolish, therefore, to continue a purely Russocentric policy that bets the house on the hope that with enough Western coaxing and acquiescence, Russia will turn into a Western democracy, a Cyrillic England. It is far more prudent for the West to demonstrate some firmness, to show we will respect Russia's national interests but not its imperial impulses...
...problem with the penalty kill unit is that it is pretty winded by now, having had to kill a surplus of stupid penalties. Time and time again, Tomassoni has justly criticized his players' lack of discipline in crucial moment--as the RPI loss showed most dramatically, a couple of foolish lapses of concentration can undo the good minutes of effort surrounding them...
...meeting, the lone dissenter, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, said, "The appearance of this proposal on the Faculty floor marks a foolish and almost pitiful surrender to feminism...
...thinks we'll have nowhere to go except with him in '96," says Jackson. "Well, that's what other Democrats thought when they talked the talk but then didn't deliver. Those guys, like ((New Jersey Governor Jim)) Florio, fooled us the first time around. We weren't foolish the second time. Florio didn't lose because the black vote was suppressed. He lost because blacks were depressed and didn't vote...
...What a foolish thing it is for Black students to be using imprecise language when discussing separatism on such a white, WASPy campus," he said...