Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trend can often inspire wild flights of fantasy. One pictures the day when Bok, in his Massachusetts Hall office, and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, across the yard in University Hall, will communicate by fax. The two buildings are less than 500 feet apart, but each is equipped with its own fax machines. Like forts stocked for war, they are prepared to do administrative battle...
...months than Botha did in his final two years. More refined than the boorish Botha, De Klerk has done away with some of the trappings of autocracy: the plumes and feathers of the State President's Ruritanian guard have been relegated to a museum. While Botha relaxed by shooting wild animals, De Klerk plays golf...
...considers the state of the nation this week, consider the state of George Bush after a year of power: he has floated $268 billion in new debt, helped create 2.5 million new jobs, fed and flattered and shaken hands with 25,000 guests in the White House and gone wild over Wallyball...
...Jackson is elected to high office, at the least one should do him and everyone else a favor and read him this remark by John Maynard Keynes, the greatest thinker the poor and oppressed of the industrial world ever had on their side: "Words ought to be a little wild, for they are an assault of thought upon the unthinking. But when the seats of power and authority have been attained, there should be no more poetic license. When a doctrinaire proceeds to action, he must, so to speak, forget his doctrine. For those who in action remember the letter...
When a friend later said, "You know what they say about guys with large resumes..." I let my imagination run wild. I soon learned, however, that guys with large resumes had small and unsuccessful job interviews. No matter how much you accomplish, your resume must not exceed one page. This is not because conciseness is an absolute virtue. Rather, scientific studies reveal that the dolts assigned to read resumes have very short attention spans...