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The strategy was seen as foolhardy by some investors as Intel's profits shriveled, but it paid off: Intel's cutting-edge factories are critical to maintaining its advantage over rivals like Advanced Micro Devices and making chips cheaper and more powerful.

All of which may lead one to ask whether Salim Bachi was being brave, or merely foolhardy, by not only choosing the life of Muhammad as the subject of his latest novel but by making Aisha, whose marriage to the Prophet at the age of nine has provided much grist to the mill of those who wish Islam ill, one of its four narrators.

He could have been on a hiding to nothing: keep things ticking over and you're accused of dining out on the previous manager's hard work, but try to stamp your own authority on the team and you're criticised for being foolhardy by trying to change a winning formula.

"I knew that I was being foolhardy by turning up like that in a strange country, but I deeply believed that something would work out for me".

"I knew that I was being foolhardy by turning up like that in a strange country, but I deeply believed that something would work out for me," he says.

But it does mean that a bet against him by a politician is foolhardy and by a journalist is dishonest.

THE foolhardy attempt by the Scots to establish a foreign colony of their own at Darién on the isthmus of Panama in the 1690s has all the ingredients for a perfect drama.

Some 1,000 bottles of champagne later, no one cared.At the time, the launch of Virgin Atlantic was widely seen as a foolhardy venture by the young owner of a record label.

A contemporary of Mr. Cameron's at Oxford University, Mr. Hunt had been seen as a possible future prime minister before he became embroiled in the Murdoch scandal, and his new appointment represents a bold — some Conservatives would say foolhardy — gamble by Mr. Cameron that he has shaken off any taint from the scandal.

National Union of Teachers general secretary Christine Blower said: "These are foolhardy remarks by a prime minister who seems not to realise he is the architect of a worsening situation.

I envisioned a headline: "Foolhardy Traveler Devoured by Mountain Lions".