Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most effective alcohol education is peer education," he said. "If your buddy says, 'You're being stupid, don't drink so much,' it counts more than if you have someone over 30 saying that...
...that Espy returned favors for gifts he received. But a jury in the District of Columbia, a city known for its skepticism toward government prosecutors, may wonder how much the public good was compromised. Says a Washington lawyer who has gone up against Smaltz: "Espy may have been foolish, stupid, negligent, even reckless. But to indict him for being good-time Charlie and not be able to show a quid pro quo" will hurt Smaltz's case. Smaltz did persuade a court to impose a $1.5 million fine on Sun-Diamond Growers for providing Espy with illegal gratuities...
...unbridled market is a greater threat to "Open Societies" than totalitarian ideologies. The press torched him. Forbes, which castigated him for dealing with ex-communists, called his thesis "nonsense." Says Soros: "You had a capitalist fool [Steve Forbes, the magazine's owner] combining with the nationalist right--a stupid combination...
...also hang out online a lot, and now and then on the Net someone will impersonate me, spoofing my E-mail address or posting stupid stuff to bulletin boards or behaving in a frightfully un-Quittner-like manner in chat parlors from here to Bianca's Smut Shack. It's annoying, I suppose. But in the end, the faux Quittners get bored and disappear. My reputation, such as it is, survives...
Dorothea Coleman, 90, also of Sun City, trusted, among other scammers, a man from Las Vegas who represented himself as a minister and talked her into giving him $36,000 for an apparently nonexistent children's home. "I was stupid," she says. But then, like many elderly women, she had never learned how to handle money. In her younger days, wives left all financial decisions to their husbands. Her spouse, a lawyer who died in 1988, "would have known better," says Coleman. "He always warned me, 'Somebody will try to get your money.' And they...