Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bringing the Boston Evening Transcript." Yet if the news is so deadening, why does it feel like a resuscitation, a thump on the chest to get the day on beat? Merely the expectation of the morning bulletins seems to place the body on alert. No, it is not beauty, wisdom or deep knowledge, but it is the news, a million panicked animals bounding up the stairs. The blood, the senses, everything races...
...Quayle-turned-manic-killer on one side of May's door "...with his muzzle-loading revolvers, knives, lengths of cord, gas chambers, doppelgangers, poison-bearing pins" versus a group of friends sitting on a couch, smiling encouragingly, waving brightly-coloured plastic baseball bats." It is here that Pesetsky's wisdom lies; rather than offer epigram, dogma, or role model, she generally keeps her characters' lives firmly within the Barnum & Bailey's that is their natural sphere...
...expressed "misgivings about the cost-benefit wisdom" of the deployments. He scoffed at the idea of paying billions of dollars for 572 weapons. "That's a hell...
...Nitze responded coldly. "Fine. Why don't you tell us what's unacceptable to you?" Kvitsinsky asked. "Because," Nitze replied, "I prefer to talk about objective realities and inequalities. It's not profitable to exchange charges of unacceptability. Besides, I've never believed in the wisdom of burning bridges. And I feel somewhat uncomfortable in the presence of pyromaniacs...
...Allstate is linked with Dean Witter and Coldwell, Banker in financial centers in 133 Sears stores. Though observers remain skeptical about the wisdom of selling stocks and socks or blouses and houses under one roof, the financial s outlets, which are located in stores in the hard-goods departments, have been successful. Dean Witter says it is opening 3.5 new accounts in some Sears stores for every one at its conventional offices. For its part, Coldwell, Banker is on track with an expansion plan that will more than quintuple its sales force by 1988. Sears plans to add 150 more...