Word: foolishness
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...budget surplus Congress is presently enjoying, and much of that advancement may owe its origin to funding decisions made decades ago. University research funded by the Defense Department developed the protocols that made the Internet possible and may have fundamentally changed the nature of the economy. It would be foolish to starve the next decades of similar innovation in other fields to achieve arbitrary, short-term budget goals...
...sides of the argument. The reality lies somewhere in-between the environmentalist model, (humanity will succumb to natural restraints), and the economic model (human nature can circumvent such natural restraints). We may be able to bend the laws of nature a bit, but it would be both arrogant and foolish to believe that we can continue to overburden the earth indefinitely...
When senior linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski recovered a lateral at the Holy Cross 12, Harvard immediately went to an option left. Wilford made a beautiful fake pitch that left linebacker Patrick Colgan looking foolish and ran in untouched for Harvard's third touchdown...
...offensive line] played very well against Columbia apart from some foolish penalties," Murphy said. "The offensive line will be solid...
...Maybe I was foolish, but I had an idea that Harvard would be a place where there would be no closed doors for me...no limit to what I could do," Thorpe says...