Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reading period again. And nobody in his right mind is going to charge over to a Newbury Street gallery with three papers, an oral report and five exams staring him in the face. But Harvard, in its benevolent wisdom, has organized enough that's interesting on this side of the River to hold us until June...
...young man helping design the new Nixon welfare legislation suddenly was asked if he had considered Ford's position, since Ford might be the President responsible for that legislation. The young man had not considered it until then, but instantly he acknowledged that wisdom dictated he learn Ford's voting record on such bills...
...most disturbing aspect of the congressional decision was that it was taken without even a pretense of searching debate about the wisdom of lifting all controls when prices are soaring and restive unions are bent on pushing for fat pay boosts. Even optimistic Government forecasters expect prices to jump, at least temporarily, when controls die. Prices for steel, processed food, auto parts, machinery and other items are all expected to shoot up when controls are lifted. For the longer run, retail prices on a wide variety of general merchandise-clothing, home furnishings, sterling silverware-will probably be climbing rapidly...
Wise Advice. Many milk producers thought they detected the wisdom of Jacobsen's advice when the Nixon Administration in 1971 raised federal milk-price supports by 270, to $4.93 per 100 Ibs. The increase came about three months after the President was offered $2 million by the dairymen for his 1972 campaign. The rise added more than $300 million to the annual income of U.S. dairy farmers and at least as much to the prices paid by consumers. Nixon has denied that the decision to raise supports was in any way influenced by the milk producers' contributions...
...Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...