Word: wisdoms
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Evidence suggests a certain lack of originality in its present positioning; according to local wisdom, there used to be a subway station in the area that the excavation now occupies...
Good for Pope John Paul II, who has the wisdom and the courage to admit that the Bible does not contain specific scientific truths...
Conventional wisdom maintains that computer buyers care less about technical achievement than about such factors as continuity, compatibility and customer support, prime virtues of IBM. In the vola tile computer business, however, history has shown that significant technical achievements can attract consumers away from the most deeply entrenched standards. Two examples: in the mid-1960s the minicomputers emerged and captured a sizable portion of the market once dominated by big mainframe computers; in the late 1970s microcomputers took business away from both mainframes and minis. Now Apple's Macintosh may be providing another example of dubious conventional wisdom...
...President was buffeted by the winds of opinion and tugged by the advice of those who doubted the wisdom of a decisive policy based on the strategic considerations I have outlined. One camp favored a low-key treatment of El Salvador as a local problem and sought to cure it through limited military and economic aid, along with certain covert measures. In that camp were Vice President Bush, Defense Secretary Weinberger, Director of Central Intelligence Casey (with reservations), National Security Adviser Allen and most of the others. Together with Baker and Deaver, Meese was the leading voice for caution...
Crosby acquired his management insights on the factory floor. Though trained as a podiatrist, he never practiced and began work in 1953 as a $75-a-week inspector of radar equipment. He soon questioned the prevailing wisdom that preventing errors was a hopeless goal. By 1961, while a quality manager of the Pershing missile program at Martin Marietta, he conceived the Zero Defects policy, which persuaded workers to sign no-flaw pledges and recognized those with perfect performances...