Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dare you keep me waiting? Are you that stupid...
...sorry. You are stupid...
...Coast Guard and much of the White House staff, Drug Enforcement Administration chief ROBERT BONNER may want to begin circulating his resume. Bonner started the fight with "Operation Granite," a new drug- interdiction scheme he concocted for the Caribbean. Under a plan that one top Administration source calls "remarkably stupid," DEA would base 10 Black Hawk helicopters in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for chasing down drug smugglers flying out of Colombia. One of Bonner's targets: drugs being air- dropped to boats. Customs and the Coast Guard objected, since they already operate large interdiction forces in the Caribbean. Besides...
...salesmen from that period say the rest of the story is fantasy. IBM had no objection to salesmen earning more than managers, they say, and many did -- with the blessing of the managers, whose own incomes rose the more their salesmen produced. Moreover, they say, IBM was not so stupid as to deny itself revenue by forcing its best salesmen to sit idle. Says Henry Wendler, who was Perot's branch manager in Dallas: "If you sold 100% of your quota, you didn't stop there. You could go to 200%, 300%, 500% and get more commissions...
...time when Christic and Perot said he was in Bangkok arranging drug smuggling. Armitage did once have a Vietnamese mistress and years later used Pentagon stationery to write a character reference for her when she was convicted in Washington of running a gambling operation, which he concedes was a stupid move. It may also have aroused Perot's moralistic antagonism. Perot to this day keeps a picture of Armitage and the woman and shows it to visitors, without making clear what relevance it might have to drug smuggling or pows...