The uncomfortable truth is that there is no accounting for man's follies or nature's whims.
More than 190 countries have put up displays or pavilions, often bizarre architectural follies.
But they should be dealt with away from the pressure of the fiscal cliff follies.
Other Website Follies: Trenitalia.com speaks Italian when it comes to departure and arrival cities.
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Not so, say the investment banks, which could well face higher capital requirements to redress their follies.
And his film roles seemed to be dwindling save for a recurring part in the Naked Gun follies.
The fact that it has survived these follies is a testament to the quality of its products and people.
The successes, missteps and follies of companies and their leaders are observable, in detail, to anyone who is interested.
They refused to prosecute: their role was to defend the individual against the weight and follies of the law.
The fiscal cliff follies did not seem to hold back car buyers either.
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Perhaps the spectacular developments to the south-west of downtown Kuala Lumpur are not quite the isolated follies that you imply.
Torment them for their follies if you want to have some sport, but save it for another place and time.
Once this realisation dawns, the entrepreneurs abandon their follies, firing their workers.
European Debt Follies : This one went from being a non-event to a genuine cause for consternation in the last few days.
GATT, after all, was set up after the second world war precisely to avoid a repetition of the economic follies of the 1930s.
And the show itself, which entered with 10 Tony nods, topped "Evita, " "Follies" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" to win best revival of a musical.
But there is a longer-term thought: it was the same President Nasser whose follies led to that canal being closed by war in 1967.
The corollary study will be on the follies of wind power.
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One of the more high-minded and painful follies of recent years.
The follies of the nouveaux riches are fun but eventually pall.
Any of you who are sitting on a billion dollars, and planning to leave the money to charity at your death, should see " Foundation Follies".
To look back on the year of "Follies" is to be reminded that it's revivals, not new work, that make American theater go 'round these days.
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The recovery won't match the boom-bust follies of 1987-92, when rents shot up 40-60% in a year and five years later were falling almost as fast.
If Mr Hatoyama does not make greater amends for his own and Mr Ozawa's follies, the DPJ could well pay for it in upper-house elections this July.
Mr Bush, who has yet to use the presidential veto even when presented with absurdities like a bridge to nowhere in Alaska, should not tolerate any more follies.
The theatre's history is told in a lusciously produced volume in which pretty Follies girls predominate naturally enough, as this was showman Florenz Ziegfeld's temple from 1913 to 1927.
In their later years, they had some big hits with composer Cy Coleman, like "The Will Rogers Follies, " which won the team its fifth Tony Award for Best Musical.
As cyber stocks soared higher and higher into the stratosphere, this insider's account provides a highly entertaining insight into the charlatans of the Internet and the follies of the stockmarket.
Only the very best musicals repay such intensive immersion, and seeing "Follies" in back-to-back stagings of such quality led me to wonder whether it might just be Mr. Sondheim's masterpiece.
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His eyewitness account of the confusions, follies and vices of the 1920s is the most valuable part of these essays, and remains relevant, of course, to our own distracted time.
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