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to foolhardy

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Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; bold but rash; hotheaded

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As recent salacious developments at Google show, it can sometimes also lead to foolhardy decisions.

Vice President Al Gore has been a fierce critic of the idea, arguing that the less financially savvy could fall prey to foolhardy investment schemes.

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To be irrational with your own money may be to be foolhardy, to give in to guilty pleasure, or to wallow in caprice.

It seemed to me foolhardy to go to a country in a state of anarchy.

You would have to be foolhardy to want to own junk bonds directly.

Sega successfully pulled out of hardware, leaving the heavy lifting to those foolhardy enough to persist, and in May, the company said it expects to pull an operating profit by March 2002, after several years of losses.

And you have to be overly foolhardy to assume that you are qualified to do so.

But while individual decisions need to be checked, asking boards to do this work appears to be foolhardy.

The upshot is that it is hard for the liberal tradition to keep hold of the right to make foolhardy decisions while also allowing for beneficent but unconsented treatment in cases of mental illness.

It is hard enough to keep up privacy standards at home; to trust strangers thousands of miles away seems to many foolhardy.

It led them to make some strategic decisions that turned out to be foolhardy.

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