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...idiot" on the council's list was Homer, father of the Simpson family and an employee of the fictitious Springfield nuclear plant. Homer seems to care less about safety than about naps, doughnuts and having enough tartar sauce for his fish sticks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Simpsons' Spurs Ire of Nuclear Industry | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...once sat next to seven-year-old boy who insisted on playing me in checkers for four consecutive hours. After throwing game after game to keep him happy, I heard him tell his dad that he had been sitting next to an "idiot." When I exacted my revenge with a decisive victory, he began to cry, and told his father I had cheated. Plus: I get free cookies and soda. Minus: Child-abuse laws are applicable on trains...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: On the Road Again | 11/21/1990 | See Source »

...idiot. I don't want to die," continued Jones, who would command a platoon of forty men if sent to the area. "But I'm excited about joining the Marine Corps and I'm looking forward to doing my duty. I can't think of a better management and leadership experience...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: ROTC Students Are Ready To Serve | 9/29/1990 | See Source »

...character of rocketry frustrated him, but fossils were something he could get his hands on, and he put in a total of seven years pursuing courses in paleontology without earning a degree. He describes himself then as "driven" and says, "I didn't want to seem like just another idiot." Horner went into the family's gravel business, but he continued to hunt for a job in the dinosaur line, finally landing one in 1975 as an assistant in paleontology at Princeton University, where his first assignment was to straighten bent nails. There, at the age of 31, he discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...earner families. Wages in real terms are lower today than in 1973. Business tried to pull wages down and put in laborsaving machinery because so many workers who are coming in from our educational system cannot read and write. The easy answer is to buy the most idiot-proof machinery so business can continue to compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILLIAM BROCK: Will Americans Work For $5 a Day? | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

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