Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chase is concerned that a backlash to the natural-burn policy may produce the other extreme: the rapid extinguishing of all forest fires. Residents, tourists and area politicians have already sharply criticized the Park Service for waiting too long before moving to contain the latest blazes. "I question the wisdom of sticking to the policy in a year like this, with these severe drought and weather conditions," said Montana Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat. Wyoming Senator Malcolm Wallop, a Republican, agreed, adding his worry about the impact of the fires on the local economy. "We've had a catastrophe...
This will come as news to Poles and Czechs and East Germans. But grant that outside Eastern Europe, in the Third World, the Soviets are indeed falling back. Why is that happening? Conventional wisdom has it that Gorbachev needs to rebuild his economy and restructure his society. He cannot do that while expending energy, treasure and occasional blood in foreign adventures. Internal retrenchment requires external calm. He needs a respite: a stable international arena and good relations with the U.S. Hence the cold war, like other old thinking, must...
Another recent elaboration in the press of the conventional wisdom puts it this way: "In the heyday of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union tried hard to promote Communism in the Third World . . . Now, under what might be called the Gorbachev Doctrine, the Kremlin has adopted a more cautious stance, backing away from confrontation." Why? Because "the Kremlin has been disappointed by the inability of Third World Marxists to impose stable Communist systems on underdeveloped societies...
...Street with Republican roistering on Bourbon Street. The incursion was central to his strategy. For weeks Dukakis has been traveling to states as small as North Dakota and as large as California that have gone Republican in recent presidential elections. He even told Floridians, in defiance of all conventional wisdom, "I believe we're going to win here...
Jeane Kirkpatrick disappointed many conservatives when she refused to run for president. Now, the former U.N. Ambassador is questioning the wisdom of that decision...