Word: foolishnesses
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...doesn't seem too keen on the recent campaign of the Lubbock, Texas school board to rid student attire of various "satanic symbols" ["The Devil Went Down to Texas," Sept. 12]. Fair enough. In my 18 years growing up in Lubbock, the school board managed to do many a foolish thing. Regrettably, however, Palmore's lampoon leaves his Harvard readers with the impression that our hometown (Palmore is from Lubbock, too) is some sort of theocratic backwater, a place where decency and common sense are casualties of the ongoing struggle against "the Evil One." This is simply not the case...
Iraq's chemical and nuclear weapons programs must be decimated to the last installation. Foolish European nations like West Germany and France must then be compelled never again to aid in the development of such potentially disastrous weapons--in Iraq or in any other unstable or aggressive country...
...short run, the U.S. would be foolish to count on a new Alaskan bonanza to fuel a gas-guzzling life-style. If oil is found on the refuge, major production could take 10 years to gear up. Even then, the contribution to U.S. petroleum needs would be relatively small compared with other means of reducing demand and finding alternative energy sources. One Senate proposal to boost auto fuel-efficiency standards 40% in the next decade could save 10 times as much oil as the refuge might produce. And while a new oil field would eventually run dry, the savings would...
...steering wheel. But like the dreamer in a nightmare who tries to leap out of the way of a speeding locomotive and finds his legs won't work, I'm pointing my finger and bending my thumb every which way with no visible result. Feeling more and more foolish in my futuristic headgear, I'm stranded in space above a cartoon rendering of a corner of Washington State, the victim of a computer simulation gone horribly awry...
...diplomatic sleight of hand to resolve the standoff. Spokesman Shaw admitted that Robinson had agreed to Bakr's terms, but stressed that the Prime Minister had endorsed the demands under extreme duress, making them nonbinding. "Tricked, double-crossed, whatever you want to call it. It is foolish to quibble with ethics when you are dealing with situations of this kind," said Shaw. "Why not promise them the moon and the stars...