Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which currently carry interest rates of roughly 5% to 7%, will be reduced 45%. More money will be raised with securities that mature in three years or less, on which the government has to pay only about 3% to 4%. The strategy makes sense now, but it's not foolproof. If inflation were to accelerate sharply, short-term interest rates could shoot higher than long- term rates. In that case, savings from the new plan could prove to be short term as well...
...going to tell you how its going to be, the UC's going to bring the Dead to me. Here is a concert proposal so sound, so foolproof, that not even the people so skilled in election fraud can louse it up. Never mind that Adam Sandler cost Trinity students only five dollars, even though their school is half the size of ours. Never mind that the U.C. transformed the popular De La Soul into a financial fiasco. Because not even the gang that couldn't vote straight can mess up a Grateful Dead concert...
...thought that the system was pretty foolproof, and I didn't realize that something like this was possible," said first-year student Kevin L. Drumm...
...exclusive long-term deals. These favored producers not only are virtually assured of getting their shows on the air; they seem to have a lock on the best time periods as well. Diane English's new CBS comedy Love and War, for example, will have the all-but-foolproof spot following English's current hit, Murphy Brown. Hearts Afire, the new series from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, will also get an enviable time period: after Bloodworth-Thomason's Evening Shade. Over at ABC, Tom Arnold's new sitcom The Jackie Thomas Show was surprisingly left off the fall schedule...
...method is by no means foolproof. Catalona stresses that 21% of the men in his study with prostate cancer actually had "normal" PSA levels. Thus the test should be used only in combination with a rectal exam, he said, and even then some cancers will be missed...