Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also means that we will seek out--in all corners of the nation, and indeed the world--a diversity of talented and promising students. Such diversity is not an end in itself, or a pleasant but dispensable accessory. It is the substance from which much human learning, understanding, and wisdom derive...
While the staff clearly understands the economic theory of co-payments, they fail to heed their own wisdom in this editorial. As expounded upon above, co-payments serve to foster greater responsibility for medical decisions by forcing individuals to consider the costs of their health care...
...common wisdom is that a computing innovation like Macintosh cannot survive without some magical but undefined percentage of the overall market. And Apple has never had that magic number. It once sold about 12% of all the computers marketed around the world. Now it sells less than 9%, and its machines seem to be disappearing from offices (except in the publishing business). Without market share, the worry goes, software companies will not write programs that entice more users, and market share will shrink further. Such uncertainties overshadow Apple's success last year at introducing an entire new line of computers...
...lives." The Republican solution? "We must rein in our runaway government, return power to the people, reduce the tax burden. Put parents back in charge of our schools. Untie the hands of our police. Restore justice to our courts and put our faith once again in the basic goodness, wisdom and self-reliance of our people...
...that our capital city is a blight and a leech on the rest of the country. The politicians there--as well as the bureaucrats, the lobbyists and, of course, the media--live in a smug and isolated cocoon of privilege and perks, oblivious to the needs and common-sense wisdom of those of us who do the real work of this great nation: meeting payrolls, raising families, giving to charity and shooting the occasional spotted owl--all activities that were completely unknown to me and my neighbors back in Chevy Chase, Maryland. True, I haven't actually seen a spotted...