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Scheme Z, a proposal first approved by the Massachusetts Executive Office of environmental affairs in 1991, has provoked raucous disapproval from Cambridge residents who have complained that the proposal is environmentally and aesthetically unsound...
...close scrutiny it was beginning to receive. It had accurately signaled Clinton's priorities -- which remain basically intact -- but there was little supporting data. Experts like Representative Leon Panetta and Alice Rivlin (whom Clinton has tapped for the two top slots at his budget office) derided the plan as unsound, and Ross Perot ridiculed Clinton for a "a bunch of junk numbers that don't compute." Perot's criticism dovetailed perfectly with Republican claims that Clinton was a tax-and-spend liberal, and the Democrat's standing in the polls sank precipitously...
...wildlife defense groups are blasting Brundtland--usually a darling of conservationists--for a move they say is politically unwise, economically unfeasible and environmentally unsound...
...Though she quickly apologized for raising the particular issue that she did -- whispers, never substantiated, that Bush had had an extramarital affair -- she had a point. Why has Bush not been questioned incessantly about his son Neil's involvement with a savings and loan association that failed because of unsound banking practices? About his knowledge of possibly illegal and unconstitutional Iran- contra activities? About his flip-flops on abortion, taxes, Saddam Hussein and many other issues? About the widepread impression that he has no strong beliefs about anything except his own ability to fill the Oval Office? The answer, probably...
...IDEAS are those that are palpably unsound...BAD ideas, on the other hand, are widely accepted and so familiar as to go largely unquestioned...