Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Accepting the resignation of his chief policy advisor, Mayor Koch said last week that Wagner "brought to this city a rare insight and historical perspective...
...Time/Design planner, for example, attempts to sort all the scattered details of an executive's life into neat compartments. The book contains more than two dozen forms for listing activities, to which the user assigns priorities by marking items with special symbols. A Santa Monica, Calif., firm called Insight Transformational Seminars sells the book for $300. The price includes a three-day seminar on how to use it. For $120, customers get a 30-page instruction book instead of the seminar...
...greatest thief of childhood is conformity, an insight that informs The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine (Atheneum; $11.95). Three hens are driven by that ageless query: Which is the most beautiful? The king makes a Solomonic decision: whoever produces the most wonderful egg will be made a princess. One hen immediately lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards...
Excited about courses he's taking in social justice, discrimination, and fiction by Black women authors, Jackson is aiming to gain insight into why athletes and education have failed to mesh, and why people in sports have grown and adapted the way they have...
Indeed, these kinds of insight can appear unexpectedly, Jackson recalls a recent lecture by a Biology professor who traced the spread of imperialism in South America and Africa in part to the existence of rubber plants that created a need for cheap plantation labor...