Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the semester's last Schoolyar Talk Tune in next semester for more sports wit and wisdom...
...animal welfare has filed a lawsuit against the Government, charging that moving the dolphins from their homes in warm southern waters to the chilly Puget Sound will endanger the animals. Moreover, one of their former trainers asserts that the Navy has abused the dolphins. Still other critics question the wisdom of entrusting the security of the nation's underwater nuclear arsenal to animals, however clever...
...southern border in the foothills of the Brooks Range, which is home to 100 Gwich'in members of the Athapaskan Indian group; and Kaktovik, on Barter Island, far to the north at the edge of the Beaufort Sea, where 200 Eskimos live. These two villages, divided about the wisdom of oil exploration, are microcosms of two positions in the battle for the future of Alaska...
...Daley's inimitable style (his most famous malaprop occured during the 1968 Democratic primary, at which Chicago police forcefully attacked student demonstrators, when he said, "The police are not here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder."), this is not a quaint piece of folksy, Midwestern wisdom; this is the heartbeat of politics...
...what we would ideally like our public officials to be. Certainly, we want them to be skillful in identifying problems, evaluating alternative solutions and carrying out appropriate policies effectively and efficiently. But most of us want more than that. We want our government leaders and executives to have a wisdom and a humane perspective far beyond techincal skill...