Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current situation in Iraq brings to mind a certain truism regarding needles and haystacks. The problem for the last week or so has been that Saddam won?t allow inspectors searching for some particularly deadly needles into his palatial haystacks ? said to be the size of Washington, D.C. But so what? As TIME?s Pentagon correspondent Dick Thompson pointed out Wednesday, you can manufacture nerve gas in a 10?x10? room. How many 10?x10? rooms can there be in Iraq? That?s an awful lot of haystacks to grope around in. Perhaps those weapons inspectors ought to quit while...
...notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution, in which all good things coexist, seems to me to be not merely unattainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent...
...with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropping 4 percent and Japan's Nikkei falling nearly 250 points. The bulls were equally spooked in Europe - Germany's DAX and Britain?s FTSE were sinking slowly early Thursday. All this on the back of Greenspan expounding a very simple economic truism: higher employment means higher wages and higher prices. What on earth would happen if he ever said something really...
...anchor for this success is a truism as relaxed as Case's laconic charm: easy is better. In a world of overfeatured, tech-heavy computers and Internet gadgets, Case built a business on the simple idea that the electronic world should be easy to use. "The geeks don't like us," Case said last week as he kicked back in his Dulles, Va., office, sporting a new green CompuServe shirt. "They want as much technology as possible, while AOL's entire objective is to simplify." It was Case, for instance, who introduced the first graphical interface to the online world...
...propagation of this truism begins even when we are in the womb of our Harvard careers. Pre-frosh are told to expect four years of near monastic conditions. In a scene that can be likened to a weaning infant bidding farewell to his final bottle, first-years watch mournfully as they learn how to unroll a condom on a wooden penis. Lamenting Eros' death at Harvard is like watching the State of the Union address; it's not at all revealing, but still important enough to ruin a night of TV. In truth, the weighty miasma of chastity that hangs...