Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about them last year. I didn't know what sort of thing they were going to do," he recalls adding, that the presentation was "as value neutral as any presentation of that sort could hope to be. They were so matter-of-fact that anyone would have felt absolutely stupid trying to cut up during...
...break in ranks left House Democratic leaders flabbergasted and furious. "It's possible to do something so clever that it's stupid," chided Majority Leader James Wright. "They've made a foolish gesture, subject to misunderstanding in their districts." Indeed, after two days of rebuke by their leaders and angry buttonholing by the powerful education lobby, all but twelve of the dissident Democrats came back to the fold. The continuing resolution, with a $1 billion hike in education and other social programs attached, passed the House...
...members of the Meurer family are primarily angry. They blame the Government for the killing of Lance Corporal Ronald Meurer, 21. They think his death was a stupid waste. One evening last week they gathered in his parents' house trailer near Westport (pop. 200), a Louisville exurb on the Kentucky bank of the Ohio River, to rage and cry together...
...ride out the storm, then quietly resign in early 1984. Now they doubt he will last the month. Reagan is exceedingly reluctant to fire Watt under pressure. The President remarked last week that the Secretary had "done a fine job" and did not deserve to be ousted for "a stupid remark." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said that Reagan would not feel bound by a Senate vote on whether Watt should go, however it might come...
...percent, considerably lower than the 10.8 percent the year before, but still higher than at any time since the Great Depression. Poverty was more widespread than ever in 15 years. Inflation was down, but only until the unemployment rate started to fall. Petrified, the emperor wondered "Am I stupid? Am I unfit for my job?" Out loud, however, he talked of growth figures, housing starts, and said "This is new and dramatic evidence of the ongoing economic recovery...