Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he paid too much, or that the device is subpar. But if I were in the market for a personal digital assistant, I'd wait. I told Benenson what I can't tell you, since I'm bound by one of those stupid nondisclosure agreements. O.K., I can tell you this much: very soon, Handspring, a Palo Alto, Calif., company founded by the folks who built the original, brilliant PalmPilot, will be launching its own PDA. And if it's as good as it looks in demos, I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy anything else...
...mean that relationships are fictional. Saying that would be stupid, as anyone who has a friend can testify. I don't even mean that friendships should be approached with an acutely self-aware sense of fatalism. Saying that would be unhelpful. I only mean that, for all we say and hope and sometimes try, we drop people from our lives. Something about the way our daily dealings are composed lets them fall away, and allows that to happen without excessive worry or even notice. It could be that the way to know people is to go through them like Kleenex...
...things." She pauses. "I'm probably going to buy some flowers," she says. "I wish they would give me something of hers--one of her toys or something." She continues: "I wish she wasn't even there. I wish she was spending the night with us. It's so stupid." She wonders, "Maybe I could take her cat. Is the cat dead...
Most political cynics say that money corrupts--or that journalists annoint frontrunners. In a small way, maybe. But the system will survive because voters aren't stupid and are always more idealistic than the candidates. We'll survive direct marketing and ethnic appeals...
...help. They?re for small government -? a good thing by most reckonings, and especially by the Fed?s ?- and for giving American consumers back, out of the government newly-teeming annual coffers, some of what they?ve been consuming so furiously to put in. It?s their economy, stupid; they made the boom, with some help from Asian imports and Robert Rubin, and wouldn?t it be nice for the GOP to show its appreciation (and hopefully win a few elections) by cutting America a check...