Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When girls use their voices to express truths, "that voice gets called stupid...and rude," said Carol Gilligan, Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Development. She told the crowd of more than 200 people in Science Center A that she named her talk "Staying in Touch: Women's Psychological Health and Development," because she wondered "what would it mean for men and women to stay in touch with that girl...
...That would be very stupid," I told him. "I know that if you think about it, you'll see the necessity for our decision." Fortunately, he calmed down. We sent in our troops. Budapest put up quite a bit of resistance, but it was all over in a matter of days...
...somber. He drives her about neighboring reservations and takes her to some ancient Pueblo villages. She begins to see a difference between inhabiting the land and trying to conquer it: "To people who think of themselves as God's houseguest, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today...
...receives 750 sq. yds. of free land and a 30-year interest-free loan of $80,000 to build a house on it. Entrepreneurs get huge interest-free loans to start businesses. And no one pays taxes. "A Saudi," King Fahd noted recently, "has to be very unlucky, very stupid and very lazy not to do well...
...hack," said Deputy Campaign Manager David H. Darman. "You're not a hack unless you're making a lot of money, and since I've been in politics I've made poverty wage. But I guess I'm stupid, addicted, or both...