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...have the responsible parties, who are quite willing to give us back the building, do something and then find we rushed into it and what we did is cover up a problem that in another year will start appearing all over again." Horner said, adding. "That's just foolish...
Business has an involvement a stake a role in a variety of public policy I sues. It would be foolish to address them without intelligent collaboration with others. Filer said yesterday...
...conclusion of Rabbit Run (1960), the hero races toward life as if it promised victory: "Out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. Ah: runs. Runs." Updike's men are lovers of the here and now and not afraid to look foolish while saying so. Piet Hanema in Couples, Harry Angstrom in the three Rabbit novels, Bech, assorted adolescents and husbands in the short stories: all act in childlike confidence, as if their surroundings have been put there specifically for them to enjoy. In a typical Updike domestic scene, the young people...
...arguments. He would be publicly repudiating some of his own commitments, damaging his reputation as the world's foremost peacemaker and admitting the fruitlessness of his celebrated visit to Jerusalem. His worst enemies in the Arab world would be proven right in their claims that he had made a foolish mistake. I told Sadat that he simply had to stick with me for another day or two, after which, if circumstances did not improve, all of us simultaneously would take the action he was now planning...
...would be foolish for either of two candidates for them not to ask me back after my year of training," he added...