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How did Bob McDonald become a dunce so quickly, while Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, has abruptly become a star?
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Ironically, the stock market can turn you from seeming like a genius to looking like a dunce in a very short period of time.
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It may be worth noting, though, that in recent weeks the New Republic has carried cover drawings of Bush as a dunce, with the tag line WHY AMERICA LOVES STUPID CANDIDATES, and as the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, with the tag line THE HARDEST JOB IN POLITICS: THE WOMAN WHO HAS TO GET GEORGE BUSH A BRAIN.
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If you have to have your memory refreshed with your report more than a couple of times (or at all in a simple case), cannot articulate your methods of investigation, use an inordinate number of vocalized pauses, allow yourself to get flustered, or just generally look like a dunce, the defense attorney has successfully tacked you on a cross.
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It amused him to claim that he was a financial dunce, uninterested in such matters as debt-to-equity ratios.
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Its role, beyond working out the logistics of the system, is the creation of the educational materials for those slapped with a copyright dunce hat.
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In the real world a CEO would be a world-class dunce not to issue a dollar of debt in order to snatch ten dollars' worth of assets.
FORBES: Dunce Glut
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That, too, ironically, is a fact that liberals ignored, caricaturing Reagan as an idiot, a simpleton, an "amiable dunce, " as Clark Clifford famously called him.
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To an economic dunce, rising fuel prices are only a cost.
FORBES: Dunce Glut
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Though we mostly handled the books only by their covers (or paged briefly through to ascertain that no dunce had striped the pages yellow or pink with a Hi-Liter), we communed deeply with them, felt certain that only we deserved to abide with them.
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