Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future. I think that no matter how much material success you may achieve, you pave the way to disappointment if you set up your five- and ten-year goals and say to yourself, 'By then I want to be there.' We are here, I believe, to achieve wisdom and live ethically. And if we can look upon the journey of life as a learning process, we will begin to perceive a lot of the difficult and disappointing things that happen along the way in a very different light--and perhaps grow from the experience, rather than turn bitter. You really...
...there was talk of keeping the investigation secret, | Rogers quickly squelched the idea. Indeed, one of the first questions he asked the White House was if the President had any problems with "full disclosure." None, came the answer. "Otherwise it would have been a running sore," Rogers said. The wisdom in that decision was emphasized by Soviet secrecy in the Chernobyl accident...
This checklist of difficulties raises questions about the wisdom of committing money to a replacement shuttle. When the Interagency Group on Space visited the White House last month to propose a new orbiter, Chief of Staff Donald Regan suggested that the shuttle might represent outmoded technology. Yet most aerospace experts still consider the shuttle an engineering marvel and the best available technology for a vehicle that can return from space and fly again. Nevertheless, some scientists consider a replacement unwise until the U.S. knows what it wants its shuttles to achieve...
...unemployment level of more than 10% (25% for youths under 25), a trade deficit of $3 billion, and a mounting budget shortfall that is now expected to hit $20 billion for 1986. The government hopes to solve these problems, says Juppe, with a policy based on "wisdom and economic liberty...
Many investors feel compelled to go along with the stampede even if they doubt the common wisdom behind it. Says Mason Sexton, president of the market-forecasting firm Harmonic Research: "I have been urging investors since September not to stand in the way of this beast. Wall Street is littered with the bodies of traders who underestimated the power of this bull market." Others see a worrisome possibility that the stock market will lose any realistic relationship with economic growth. Says De Lutis: "If the market has a substantial rise and gets way ahead of the economy, then it would...