Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teachers looking for a new career in computers need more than anger at local taxpayers for credentials, though. "You can't walk into an interview with your tail between your legs, sour about what education has done to you and sour about Proposition 2 1/2," James Wisdom, a former teacher currently employed by Data Inc., said...
Oddly, Congress seems in a mood to slash spending deeper, and faster, than taxes. While that attitude might seem to defy conventional political wisdom, there is strong reason for it. Public-opinion polls have consistently shown popular majorities in favor of lower spending. Reagan's impressive victory last November convinced nearly all legislators, Democratic as well as Republican, that the polls are reading the public mood correctly. Says Democratic Senate Whip Alan Cranston of California: "The attitude among Democrats here is that we can't be in the position of preventing him from trying what he was elected...
...real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth relative to fixed objects, but belief in the currency is diminishing even faster, at a geometric rate. Thus the conventional wisdom, that what goes up must come down, may be false physics." But who knows for sure? Says Goodman: "One of my old maxims runs: Financial genius is a rising market. Booms create heroes. Someone who can flip a coin to come up heads ten times in a row will...
...tabs on Rohanda, Ambien II begins to believe that Canopus is far more advanced than Sirius. The Sirians are technological wizards, but every millennium or so they discover that their ever more sophisticated machines have rendered more people useless and unhappy. Ambien suspects that the Canopeans have achieved a wisdom that transcends this problem, and she initiates a friendship with Klorathy, a senior Canopean administrator, in the hope of prying his secrets away. The job is not easy. He has the habit of answering a question with another question. He is also given to interstellar bromides: "Everything is relative...
...also known and much liked Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving her Jag too fast. In fairly short order, given his necessity to invoke Goethe, Swinburne, Auden, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, The Barber of Seville, Beethoven, Berenson, Vasari and other fonts of circumstantial wisdom, Usher stumbles into a morass of rot in Mass. As friends keep telling him, "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things...