Word: foolproof
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...depressed market, a bankable rally in the not-too-distant future, and a floor under share prices? Well, here's the disclaimer: If it sounds foolproof...
...scattered speech which actually did very little to elucidate just how liberals and terrorists are suffering from the same disease. “It’s a little something I like to call racial profiling.” According to Coulter, racial profiling at airports is such a foolproof measure against terrorism that only a paper like the “Treason Times”—also occasionally referred to as The New York Times—would be so unpatriotic as to publish editorials against...
Obviously, if the budget’s bottom line is the reason for only looking at white coaches, the BCA is right in focusing on economic, not moral persuasion. For one thing, moral persuasion is not very foolproof. It might result instead in a situation where lip service is paid to minority hiring (putting a token black candidate on a list of candidates, for example). To go after a college, any college, you’ve got to aim right for the pocketbook...
...Most people realize their mistake and return the item,” he says. “The student storage areas are what they are. They’re not always foolproof...
This is what I think about as I cross the Brooklyn Bridge and stare at Lower Manhattan. I wonder how much it would take to truly foolproof the structure I’m standing on—what it would take to search every car, to reinforce every beam and cable, to install the necessary guns atop each tower. And still, even in this wildly hypothetical case, the new foe, evil’s newfound creativity, would continue to find ways around the latest roadblocks. There is a risk, a vulnerability simply in existing...