Word: foolishnesses
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Outraged Nixon aides suggested that Dobrovir had violated legal ethics, and two days later he was summoned to court. There he contritely conceded: "I made a very foolish mistake." Judge William B. Jones ordered all tapes and documents in the milk case to be sealed until presented in court...
...standard's just as good. Throw some figures at 'em. Tell them that they're three times as likely to be injured in an accident if they're driving a subcompact.* Wait a little bit, and then say that with big-car prices down so much, they'd be foolish to sit cramped up in a small car ready to die ... Men, go out there and sell those big cars...
...Obviously, writes Author Ronan, ancient man was "neither more foolish nor more intelligent than we are." Just more forgetful-perhaps...
...tone could be deliberately created with an audio signal generator (a device used to inject a desired tone to test or adjust audio circuits), but this could be easily distinguished, he explains, from the sound generated inadvertently from fluorescent lights or an electrical cord. Thus it would be a foolish way to make the conversation unintelligible. Re-recording a new conversation or erasing would be more feasible...
...causes which have led to a society in which machines are so complicated that they baffle most people. Jim's work evokes the parallel between an ordinary twentieth-century man's astonishment in the face of mysteries like lasars. He is gently satirizing an America foolish enough to long for the good old days of the last century--the very times in which the seeds of its own most pressing problems were sown. And at the same time as Jim Rippe, an artisan in an age dominated by machines, waxes a trifle sentimental about the early nineteenth century, he makes...