Sold by its supporters through an unquestioning media to a gullible public as a tool necessary to protect upstanding American producers and their workers from the ravages of predatory foreigners hell-bent on stealing the U.S. market, the antidumping law escapes the scrutiny it deserves.
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Your typical victim of investment folly is not necessarily a hapless schoolteacher or a gullible dentist.
Literally thousands of scientists have expressed deep doubts about global warming, yet those doubts are deep-sixed by a gullible media.
The Big Board's board of directors during Grasso's time at the helm included the CEOs of America's foremost financial houses and several heads of major corporations--hardly a gullible, dupable bunch.
We are bogged down in wars that do not serve our national interest (one extraordinarily costly misadventure, Iraq, was successfully sold to a gullible and un-thinking public on transparently bogus pretenses).
Perhaps one of the more bizarre scams in Bangkok involves gem hustlers telling tourists that the whole of Chinatown is shut down, in hopes that the more gullible travellers will visit a great little store they know of instead.
Judge Gettleman said he accepted the defense depiction of Hassoun as a uniquely gullible youth and that an informant may have been eager to please his FBI handlers by leading him on though he said that was no excuse for Hassoun's crime.
He was a cheerful but gullible character who's greed regularly landed him in trouble.
Despite all that, I remained audacious (or gullible) enough to hold a glimmer of hope that the president would finally see the wisdom in our advice given the new political landscape.
Not only that, no one can expect more from the typical gullible Americans to all of a sudden become pan arabists and support the BULLY illegitimate action of the Gulf Arabs, the SAME people who financed and trained mad men to fly planes into American buildings, killing innocent American civilians ( btw, NO terrorist has ever come out of Iran or has been a Persian).
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What came out in trial was that Mandell had a staff that was gullible, had low self-esteem and had some skeletons in their closet prior to joining Sky Capital.
It has broken successive promises to gullible European foreign ministers to forego such a capability.
And gullible types are often taken in by a smart waitress who knows that small gestures like friendliness or a mint at the end of the meal usually do the trick.
"I was greedy and gullible, " says Claudia Nelson, 66, a retired real estate agent in Boise, Idaho.
As I explained in a recent column, that is just a public relations term invented to scare gullible, white bread suburbanites.
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Build a few Potemkin village medical facilities to fool the gullible into believing some noble purpose or higher achievement motivates the endeavor.
In an age when most politicians tell you that you have to look out for yourself, Cecil County is one of a handful of places that want to protect the gullible.
Many of the gunmen, they say, are northern tribesmen and seminary students let loose by Mr Saleh (and in his absence by his friends) to persuade gullible Western governments to go on backing the regime in Sana'a.
The business of distributing Herbalife products is all too often a losing proposition, and only those able to perpetuate recruitment chains have a shot at the rich rewards the company dangles before the gullible.
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