Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Nixon, which Kapferer says was spread by the official Chinese press. Instead of challenging the President, so the story goes, authorities arranged to have a performing magician pull the cup out of Nixon's briefcase and replace it with a cheap imitation. Kapferer thinks this rumor offered folk wisdom on how to deal with foreigners. "It showed the essential traits of the image the Chinese have of themselves," he explains, "the final victory of the resourceful Chinese over the crafty foreigner, and the ability of the Chinese to know how to act without having anyone lose face." The tale...
...conventional wisdom has it, teams live and die by their special teams in the playoffs, the Crimson is living...
...going to go on a little trip, and then we were going to live like everybody else. I don't like surprises. I planned Brendan three years after Sean, so we decided we would leave with two kids. Michel and I both had our appendixes out. Michel had his wisdom teeth out." Having seen to these precautionary surgeries, there was nothing for it but to sail, and in late summer of 1982 the wind blew them to Spain, then Portugal, then Africa...
...discussion will focus on the handling of the Iran arms deal, trying to "distill from the crises some wisdom" on how the government may act more effectively in the future, said Ellen Hume, White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and moderator of the program...
Although a recent poll indicates the general public seems to favor compulsory testing, especially of those in high-risk groups, experts question its wisdom. "For both sound public-health reasons and civil rights reasons, we are very much opposed to any type of mandatory testing," says Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City's health commissioner. Experience with other diseases, he says, shows that without an effective cure for AIDS, such a policy would be useless. "Until treatment was available, mandatory testing and ((sexual)) contact tracing did nothing to stem the spread of syphilis...