Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school board members are proud of their tough stand. Says Norman Murray, the father of seven children and a former FBI man: "I don't have a corner on the world's wisdom, but I think we were right." He plans to spend much of the money that the district makes from teacher and union fines on remedial pro grams in basic skills...
...prove the wisdom of Philadelphia's refusal to give Rizzo a chance at another term, a federal grand jury last week heard charges that his administration was responsible for the failure of perhaps hundreds of voting machines, most of them concentrated in anti-Rizzo wards. One of the city's election commissioners, Margaret Tartagalione, a Rizzo supporter, was arrested for having ordered voting machines in other anti-Rizzo districts moved away from regular polling places...
...momentum, the winds of political fortune can still change. While the latest polls show substantial Labor gains, they also indicate strong Tory support, particularly in shifting Midlands districts where British elections can be won and lost. And Callaghan has problems ahead in persuading intransigent workers to accept the wisdom of his incomes policy. Last week 57,000 assembly-line workers at Ford Motor Co. Ltd., in the seventh week of a strike for higher pay, rejected a company offer of a 16.5% increase. Meanwhile, workers in the public sector, from teachers to trash men, are also pushing for raises...
...HERE IS WISDOM: beware of harmless-sounding words: "registration," "hourly," "transit," "camp," and above all (if you are a writer)--"PROMOTION," "PRESS RELEASE," "URGENT--FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
...many affect to despise, but secretly covet) may make things seem even cosier. There are the same manicured lawns, lay-out of staircase and quadrangle, dining clubs and societies, even the same assiduous cultivation of alumni and roll-calls of the "great and just" shuttling through to impart their wisdom to the student body...