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.
GATT, after all, was set up after the second world war precisely to avoid a repetition of the economic follies of the 1930s.
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.
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.
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.
But the result is a surfeit of rather flat news stories and the book only really comes to life with the last two sections, perhaps because the follies of dotcom valuations and subprime loans seem so fresh in the memory.
We eagerly romp with him through the follies of confirmation bias (our tendency to reaffirm our beliefs rather than contradict them), narrative fallacy (our weakness for compelling stories), silent evidence (our failure to account for what we don't see), ludic fallacy (our willingness to oversimplify and take games or models too seriously), and epistemic arrogance (our habit of overestimating our knowledge and underestimating our ignorance).
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.
At question time on 15 March 2010, Conservative former home secretary Lord Waddington said it "would be grossly unjust if Britain finished up having to pay for the follies" of eurozone countries that suffered from poor economic management.
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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Kevin Depinet, whose long list of memorable design credits includes Chicago Shakespeare's "Follies" and the Goodman Theatre's recent revival of "The Iceman Cometh, " has conjured up the simplest of sets, a two-step platform framed by elegant-looking curtains.
But they should be dealt with away from the pressure of the fiscal cliff follies.
The fact that it has survived these follies is a testament to the quality of its products and people.
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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Perhaps the spectacular developments to the south-west of downtown Kuala Lumpur are not quite the isolated follies that you imply.
And the show itself, which entered with 10 Tony nods, topped "Evita, " "Follies" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" to win best revival of a musical.
McLane's other credits include the recent revival of "The Heiress" with Jessica Chastain, the current "Nice Work If You Can Get It" with Matthew Broderick, the last revivals of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" and "Follies, " the show "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" with Robin Williams, and the Tony winning revival of "Anything Goes, " which is currently on a national tour.
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