Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin turned to addressing some problems head on--by blaming others for them. In Russia especially, this is a traditional dodge. Since the czar is always right, the argument goes, any difficulties that arise are the result of unscrupulous or stupid subordinates who undermine him. Take, for example, the failure of the government to pay its civil servants for months at a time. A $10 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund has helped Yeltsin clean up some of the arrears, but the issue remains contentious. The blame for this shameful performance, the President zestily explains in a stump-speech...
...about Bill Clinton, who has said that he will be happy to sign the tax repeal into law? Should he get $9.50? Or does he deserve an even larger share for being willing to sign a measure that he clearly thinks is completely stupid...
...that he flew from Little Rock to Boston to tutor Dukakis staff members on the wisdom and methods of rapid response. But no one listened until it was too late; Dukakis thought the ads about furloughed killer Willie Horton did not need to be answered simply because they were stupid and wrong, ignoring the fact that they were devastating. By the time he ran in 1992, Clinton had learned that brazen replies were key to political success. The War Room operation in Little Rock, set up after the Democratic Convention at Hillary Clinton's behest, was mostly a quick-response...
Skopljak was the police chief back then, and he acknowledged to TIME last November after being indicted that bad things happened. "I am not denying there were crimes on our side," he said, "but I am honestly innocent, as stupid as it sounds." While the Croats of Vitez rallied round, denouncing the Hague, Skopljak charged that "the tribunal believes stories invented by the Muslims. This is a staged process, a dirty political game." The former Franciscan monk insists that he "protected Muslims by hiding them, and I tried to find out who did Ahmici, but I didn't succeed." Confident...
...since Bob Dole backs Leahy's measures. Moreover, the International Committee of the Red Cross is an outspoken opponent of mines, and Dole's wife Elizabeth is on leave as president of the American Red Cross. "A lot of the Republicans think this 'Let's ban mines' stuff is stupid, but because of Elizabeth Dole, nobody's willing to take the thing on," says a Republican aide in the House...