Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many stupid jobs in my life I can't believe it. I think the most contented job I ever had in my entire life was pumping gas at Chevron station at the west bound exit off the highway 401. I wore overalls that said Ed. Sometimes people would ask me, "So Ed...?" It was great, like...
...funny, at the most basic level, is that they are losers. Given an opportunity to screw-up--lose a million-dollar law suit, lose a bet, louse up on the job, fail at school--the Simpsons, at least Bart and Homer, will almost invariably come through. No matter how stupid our children are at school, they will never match Bart. No matter how badly we do our jobs, Homer does his worse. (In fact, what makes Lisa so boring is that she never screws up). No matter how much TV we watch, they watch more...
Harvard has every right to make work part of students' financial aid packages. But the Harvard Jobs Program is only a stupid euphemism for finding work. Do they think we're fooled? This is not very outrageous, but it is very silly...
They will learn, as many Americans have, that they don't count under capitalism, that capitalism means today, as it has in the past, "the freedom for the stupid to starve." These cogs that fit so well in the old Stalinist machine will be the Soviet homeless, unemployed, uninsured, and uneducated, toosed out in the streets as they are here, avoided and ignored. They will be the relics of a failed system, left to rot on cabbage and stale rye bread as their grandchildren either forgot them in the quest for that elusive first million or turn away...
Often faced with the choice of appearing either venal or stupid, Clifford and Altman skillfully parried most questions. Clifford justified his large stock profits by explaining that he had taken only a nominal salary of $50,000 a year, and that the stock gains were a result of his successful efforts to boost the value of the company. Asked how they could possibly have been unaware that they were involved with a criminal enterprise, the two pointed out that B.C.C.I. had also managed to fool the Bank of England, Price Waterhouse and the Bank of America. But their polished responses...