Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good deal more assurance in the outcome, and a lot less amazement at its denouement, than most of the people there. "It's the middle-class issues, you know--tax reform, abortion, the death penalty--that's why we're winning this," he announced. I thanked him for his wisdom, and strolled off in search of other feeding fish...
...success will light a spark, indeed a fire, in the President. His cool and distant smile of the past months could not hide all the hurt in his eyes from the rising national doubts about his competence. As Americans cheer his Camp David achievement, Jimmy Carter with luck and wisdom could be born again a second time in a way that could lift this nation as well as himself. Men in public service are nourished by justified public acclaim. Carter's time has at last come...
Ullman's call for help for private enterprise might have seemed startling a few months ago, but at the conference it was the unchallenged wisdom echoed by speakers of many viewpoints. Former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, now head of Wall Street's Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, coupled a persuasive appeal for steps to foster the development of new businesses with a wry observation that "an investment banker calling for a cut in capital gains taxes has all the credibility of Dracula asking for charitable contributions to the blood bank...
Grayson disputes the conventional wisdom that productivity has been hurt by social change. The surge of women, nonwhites and the young into the job market has not had much impact, in his view. C. Jackson Grayson Jr. "I've heard all the rhetoric about we-don't-want-to-work-hard-any-more, and I don't believe it. The work ethic has not been lost. What has happened is that autocratic, bureaucratic organizations in business and public service have suppressed the desires and ability of the individual to feel that he or she is contributing. People...
...here because I'm interested in federalism," fellow spectator Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of Government, told me as we looked at the melee. He said he was doing some informal research for his course, Government 147, "American Federalism," and sat down to offer some wisdom on the political dollar madness...