Word: foolishnesses
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...There is an attempt to deify Godzilla in this movie, a theme which is often repeated in none too subtle terms by various characters. We are told that Godzilla is more than just a fantastically large creature; he is a force of nature, nature's response to man's foolish treatment of the planet and nuclear weapons...
Ilacqua has never let negative expectations hold him down--an attitude that means a great deal to his teammates. "Unless we make foolish mistakes and give the ball away, we'll be in the game in the fourth," the captain says, "with a chance...
...RECENT EXERCISE in one-upsmanship exhibited by the Salient editors is all too easy to ridicule. The substantive point of the majority opinion is actually quite correct--Harvard divestiture from companies doing business with the USSR would indeed most likely prove an empty, even a foolish, gesture. Where the majority falls down is where the divestiture movement always falls down: If divestiture cannot be justified on purely moral grounds, it cannot be justified at all, because its results are impossible to predict; and if it can be justified solely on moral grounds, then there is every reason to support...
...they wanted to, there is nothing to keep Harvard from selling the forest outright. They can sell it for lumber if anyone were foolish enough to buy it," Calvin Stillman said...
...drastic as Smoot-Hawley. Still, the pro-tariff mania that swept Washington 55 years ago remains a danger. "What we are afraid of," says S. Bruce Smart, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, "is that people are so emotional that they will do something that they know is foolish, just to do something...