Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Journalist Bill Moyers, at the University of Texas, Austin: "A journalist is a professional beachcomber on the shores of other peoples' wisdom...
...enabled Randi to step up his travels. He has logged 45,000 miles in the past few months alone, traveling far from his home in Plantation, Fla. In March he was in Australia, demonstrating the fraudulence of channeling, which involves a supposedly long- dead sage uttering words of wisdom through the mouth of a modern-day proxy. April found him in China, invited by a science journal to help stem what the editor called "growing confusion between science and superstition." In San Francisco and Des Moines, Dallas and New York City, Randi spoke out for rationality in what he sees...
...year career at Ford, rescued Chrysler, brought him more than 71,000 letters, including suggestions that he run for President and pleas for advice on family, finance and foreign affairs. Now the chairman is back with a sequel, Talking Straight (Bantam Books; $21.95), in which he dispenses the folk wisdom his fans were asking for. He is by turns caustic, magnanimous and earthy but almost never bland...
...name. It does not have a rich coast. It is a very poor country," Arias said later. "Our best resource, undoubtedly, is our people, the knowledge, and the education of our youth. You're undoubtedly supporting the effort [of] previous generations [who] for a long time [have] had the wisdom to make education compulsory and free...
...Duke from Down Under versus the Rat from Colombia. We all know who wins. The audience rushes out of the theater, exalting the wisdom of Mick, and heads off to the nearest bar for a cold Foster's. In the purest Holly-wood tradition, the good guy walks off into the sunset with a woman at his side...