Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, with everything else, things have changed since then. Judging by the March 2 Crimson story about Harvard selling Floor Corporation stock, I now feel I can respectfully have issue with both Harvard's amoral investment policy and its financial wisdom...
...Viet Nam fallacy. It is fallacious not just in the objective difference between the two situations, but in the way that indulgence of a false analogy can skew judgment. In general, foreign policy is better served by a conscious attempt to analyze each situation afresh, rather than by the wisdom of hindsight (which, of course, is really not wisdom at all). Soldiers, it has often been said, have the bad habit of waging the last war. Americans, in their current fretting over El Salvador, are similarly afflicted. Across the political spectrum, there is no one who wants to re-experience...
Concern about the deficits united the board's Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives. Said Democrat Otto Eckstein, a Harvard professor who was an economic adviser to President Johnson: "Reagan's economic policy is an off-the-wall approach that rejects conventional wisdom. We're running an incredible experiment with these deficits." Conservative Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau for Economic Research, observed, "The Administration has put itself in an impossible position." Even Republican Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant and sometime adviser to Reagan, admitted that the outlook was "extraordinarily bleak...
...common wisdom is that a vote for the lieutenant governor is a vote taken from Dukakis. While Dukakis leaders say they are confident of victory no matter how many hats are in the ring, some of the Duke's supporters fear that O'Neill may not drop out honorably--a stubbornness that could spoil things for the liberal wing of the party, or for the party itself...
Even in Poland, some Solidarity sympathizers have expressed doubts about the wisdom of the union's course. Sitting in a comfortable country house near Warsaw, a group of affluent Polish farmers last week discussed the union's fate with a mixture of pity and reproach. "We are still for Solidarity," said one man, "but unfortunately they should have had more patience." His wife agreed: "It was too much, too fast...