Word: rashness
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...night—still didn’t know their lottery status. Such late lotteries leave students who have been rejected from the course with an insufficient amount of time to scramble for a final course and trot around campus collecting signatures. Students should not be forced to make rash decisions as the clock ticks down...
...missed a crucial opportunity to flesh out and develop the General Education curriculum over the past four months, a move that would have benefited the entire student body and especially the Class of 2011. Perhaps the College is acting with the best intentions, moving slowly, and deliberately, to avoid rash decisions. Yet without a firm and articulated plan of action, the College’s apprehension could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. General Education will only be a change worthy of five years of deliberation if it has an underlying vision behind which currently apathetic faculty, students, and administrators...
...Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 should take at the Fed’s upcoming policy meeting. Subprime mortgages—loans which banks make on highly favorable terms to potential homeowners with weak credit histories—became common in recent years, but a rash of recent defaults has sent the mortgage industry into turmoil. Amidst worries that the mortgage crisis could be causing a general economic slowdown, many argue that an interest rate cut is in order to push the economy back on track. But others say the Fed should not bail...
None of this means you should be rash. The whole point of buying while the market is soft is to have time to think things through. Second homes come with myriad expenses and headaches. Can you really afford it? How will you feel if you drain your 401(k) plan to buy a second home (not recommended) and then stocks take off? What if moving day arrives and you find you no longer want to live there? Sort it out now--and then take the plunge. Here are some other reasons that buying a vacation home now to live...
...long-term investor, he who most promotes the public interest, who will in practice come in for most criticism, wherever investment funds are managed by committees or boards or banks," he wrote. "For it is in the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion...