Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Left-wing scholars still question the wisdom of Clark's appointment, and the ideological rift in the faculty is not yet resolved...
Sadly, these little blurbs are just popular examples of much of the prevailing wisdom of our now full-blown American fitness craze. Our mentality has been geared to consider bowling ball biceps, wash-board abdomens and slender hips as the be-all and end-all of what it means to be truly healthy. And amid all the bang and blab a partial view of reality, and real fitness, has been allowed to take hold, one that neglects that there is an internal side to good fitness as well...
...believe fundamentally that with proper maintenance and proper inspection an airplane can in fact last forever." Boeing Chairman Frank Shrontz could have been speaking for the entire airline industry when he delivered that traditional wisdom to a gathering of aviation experts in Washington last month. But just two days later, a cargo door and part of the skin tore away from a 19-year-old Boeing 747 shortly after it left Hawaii, sucking nine passengers from the plane. Investigators have not yet officially determined the cause of the failure, but they have focused on the possibility of a faulty door...
While he was probably shooting the breeze on a baseball diamond somewhere in Arizona, Yogi Berra's wisdom was being reaffirmed on two basketball courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey last night...
...return to public service dumps him into a sticky triangular paradox. Alone among Reagan advisers, Darman lent his name to a Washington coinage: "Darmanesque" denotes the arcane stratagems he devised to promote Reagan policies. In the process of advancing Reaganomics, he sometimes swallowed his own skepticism about its wisdom. Now Darman must extricate Bush from the tar pit that is Ronald Reagan's fiscal legacy. The incongruity does not diminish his enthusiasm...