Outside the Olympic bubble, the folly of trying to suppress private sales is well understood.
He was just so happy, he said, shaking his head at the folly of his emotion.
Both provisions show the folly of trying to conduct social policy through the tax code.
At best Akamai looked like the folly of academic theorists who were not as clever as they thought.
Which brings us to the real scandal that Mr. Levin has exposed: the folly of America's corporate tax code.
The Second World War demonstrated the folly of their vantage on foreign policy.
There are other issues that should also be addressed, such as the folly of forcing utilities to buy expensive fuels.
An environmentalist who lives in Alaska, Davidson offers a clear-eyed description of the folly of much of the cleanup effort.
Through their actions, these young men and women show the folly of trying to impose limitations on this great nation.
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Mr Bernanke will be under great pressure to repeat the folly if investors and politicians clamour for more rate cuts.
Berkshire was able to feed off the recklessness of bankers as Mr. Buffett advocated the folly of taxpayers bailing them out.
Paulson focused on the folly of taking a pool of mortgages, and adding layers upon layers of additional securitization pools.
Unfortunately, history has repeatedly illustrated the folly of using forward-earnings estimates, which are typically over-stated by anywhere from 10-20% on average.
For them, here was proof of the folly of spending money on an expensive and (to their minds) unworkable defense system.
The joy of Menckenism is that it frees practitioners to lampoon the folly of everything without ever having to defend anything.
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In this case, a tiny state had a massive hole blown in its budget through the folly of just a few lawmakers.
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Efforts to rectify the "basic skills" problem have led to the folly of "21st-century skills" rather than a solid liberal arts curriculum.
Many of its members, it is true, are moderates, keen to stress that they have learnt the folly of extremism from the Taliban.
The novels illustrated both the folly of war and the unsung, unregarded heroism of the lower orders, the actual builders of the empire.
The ABM treaty has taught us the folly of promising to ban forever certain weapons or defenses and limit the use of new technologies.
The banking disaster is widely seen in Iceland as the folly of a few financiers, and there is profound resistance to assuming their debt.
He brandished the downgraded growth forecasts for this year and next as supposed proof of the folly of fast and deep cuts to public spending.
And the folly of failing to invest in education and infrastructure.
So while the folly of price controls is obvious among the economic commentariat, there's a strange paradox at work when it comes to the Federal Reserve.
Still, when a youth is knifed outside a night club, no cop needs evening classes in evolutionary psychology to realize the folly of rounding up grannies.
Applying the same assumptions found in the current discussion of cyberspace as a domain to other domains helps to illustrate the folly of this way of thinking.
Accordingly, it underscores the folly that cutting-and-running there would represent.
If that was all there was to the story , we would be left with a neat cautionary tale about the folly of placing too much faith in machines.
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And to show the folly of GNP, or today's gross domestic product measures, 6% money growth combined with 3% inflation would give Stein the 9% GNP increase he desired.
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