Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hizballah was unlikely to harm U.S. security. He did not, for example, know the names of secret agents in the Middle East. No U.S. operations were changed as a result of the kidnaping. "The main danger was to Higgins," says an official familiar with the report. "It was a stupid posting...
...latest book, City, Whyte continues to challenge orthodox urban planning. For one thing, he likes free-floating city congestion. He maintains that gentrification gets a bum rap and that the corporate exodus to the suburbs is stupid. He advocates narrower streets for cars and wider sidewalks for people. Forget exits, he says, it's time to make better doors. The revolving ones at the bottom of most office towers may save energy, but they are hopelessly inefficient at moving people. Cram as many stores as possible along the streets to bring them alive. Do away with skywalks, abolish sunken plazas...
...culture. In 1969 Doi, then a lecturer at Doshisha, approached the deputy mayor of her hometown of Kobe to apologize for an inaccurate newspaper report that she had accepted a J.S.P. draft for the lower house of parliament. The official was condescending and blunt: "Wouldn't it be really stupid to run in an election you know you have no chance of winning?" Affronted, Doi snapped back, "I've decided right here, at this very moment, that I will run for this election." She went on to win, and has not lost a single contest since...
Dogs, who are generally fairly stupid animals, will play this game for hours. Reading Sheila Kohler's first novel, The Perfect Place, is a lot like being the dog in this game...
California winemakers are rather like an extended family, in which fierce competition to concoct a better Chardonnay seldom intrudes on friendship. These days, however, a territorial dispute is pitting neighbor against neighbor. "I am thoroughly opposed to slicing up the Napa Valley," declares winemaker Joe Heitz. "It is asinine, stupid and ridiculous...