Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the issue has not exactly caught fire. If middle-class discontent has been strong enough so far to deny Bush the landslide that unemployment and inflation figures might lead a follower of conventional wisdom to expect, it has not been sufficiently powerful to keep Dukakis from running behind. Many Americans, of course, base their votes on noneconomic criteria. Others associate Democrats with 1970s stagflation; they think, rightly or wrongly, that the Reagan expansion will continue and eventually improve their own financial status. Those who are hazily aware that their relative position is slipping often refuse to admit, even...
Since late in the primary campaign, when it became apparent that Gov. Michael Dukakis would be the Democratic Party nominee, his campaign has followed the conventional wisdom of American politics which says that a liberal candidate cannot be elected President. In an attempt to win the general election, Dukakis has distanced himself from the "liberal" label, and tried to pose as a moderate. Ironically, those attempts at ideological hide-and-go-seek may cost him the election and do terrible damage to the cause of American liberalism for years to come...
Jewish strategy aside, Jack Frank, a Chicago Orthodox rabbi with a doctorate in pastoral counseling, questions the wisdom of intermarriages: "It's difficult enough to merge two individuals in a good marriage when their values and customs are the same." Often, he says, couples refuse to face the reality that when the first child is born, in effect "one member of the couple has to give up his religion...
...Dexter Gate] bears theinscription, 'Enter and grow in wisdom,'" Y.T.Feng, Librarian of Harvard College said. "MayHOLLIS help us to do just that...
...nation's 2.3 million public schoolteachers by $3,260. The question the next President must decide is which of these expenditures will make the U.S. stronger and do more to ensure its future economic vitality. In answering it, he should keep in mind one bit of folk wisdom: you get what...