Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Machiavelli's assertion, asks to be judged by the toughest standard imaginable. Throughout the campaign, Clinton routinely promised a first 100 days reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's action-filled three-month push to lift America from the Great Depression. No matter that the F.D.R. yardstick is arbitrary -- and even foolish given the blessed lack of a galvanizing crisis like the one America faced in 1933. "I think it's been a very productive 100 days . . . we've made terrific progress," White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said last Wednesday, eight days shy of the mark and a few hours...
...results, excellent software at an excellent price, speak for themselves. Looking at commercial software, it seems foolish for Lotus, Microsoft, and WordPerfect to continually reinvent the same wheel. And couldn't the fortunes spent on marketing, advertising, and pretty boxes go elsewhere...
...think it would be foolish to ignore the fact this does exist," he says...
...time when honesty is required, any perceived disingenuousness can be fatal -- yet there has been too much of that already. Labeling Social Security tax increases as spending cuts invites ridicule, and mixing up gross and net deficit-reduction figures is similarly foolish. Correcting such lapses by demanding that the unvarnished truth be told should not be difficult, but getting the congressional Democrats in line is another matter. And since Clinton has apparently abandoned any hope of G.O.P. support for his plan, even a moderate number of Democratic defections could doom the enterprise...
These estimates could be made much more reliable if the University would agree to take a survey of its lighting system. If such a survey predicts significant savings, then Harvard would be foolish not to adopt the Green Lights program...