Word: truisms
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...Hospital Truism. In hospitals all over the U.S., surgeons now make a routine performance of lifesaving procedures so radical that they were almost unimaginable a few years ago. There is hardly a place in the human body that surgeons have not been, hardly an operation too daring for themi to perform; yet the surgical patient can face his ordeal with more confidence than he ever could before. Per haps the proudest measure of the surgeon's success is the built-in assurance of today's hospital truism: "If they can operate, you're lucky...
Moral disapproval is rarely an effective force in international business. Opponents of South Africa's white supremacy policies are discovering the validity of this old truism. Three years ago, when Jamaica launched a boycott of South African goods which was eventually joined by 17 other African, Asian and West Indian countries, South Africa's exporters were badly worried. A year later, after South Africa left the Commonwealth in high dudgeon, foreign investors began to pull capital out of the country at such a rate that foreign reserves sank to an anemic $15 million, and the government was forced...
...Osagyefo (Redeemer), the indoctrination of small children with such a parody of Christian teaching (Matthew 4:19) was too much for the Right Rev. Richard Roseveare, 60, Anglican Bishop of Accra. Fortnight ago, the bishop rose before a Christian gathering in Cape Coast to declare solemnly. "It is a truism to say that the future will be in the hands of the boys and girls of today...
Administration insiders billed the speech as an effort to conciliate business, and as a charter of economic policy. Its heart was an extended attack on what the President called "myths." Said he: "As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truism and stereotype, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality...
...economists' truism that when its swings are extreme enough, the market affects the economy, spurring a recovery or speeding the onset of a recession...