Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second-floor gallery. There, Duc repeated the three-part Sanskrit liturgy at the side of Ho's closed coffin. In a few brief remarks in English, he told the mourners: "Our lives on this earth are impermanent...Disease causes us [to] suffer. Death causes us [to] suffer. Wisdom causes us [to] suffer...
...very shrewd financially, very involved in many of the decisions that have been made with respect to the Harvard endowment, which has done very well," says Hope of Stone, who serves on the board of the Harvard Management Company. "His wisdom and financial management are more [valuable] than anything...
Might they have been hoping that the younger generation will realize better than they did that it must carpe diem and that NCAA Tournaments are precious and rare? Might they also have been hoping that Gudeman, Duffy and all of next year's recruits will use this wisdom to their advantage and reclaim the Ivy League Title for the lacrosse, soccer and field hockey teams...
...Republicans who control Congress are dead serious. In record time last week, they rammed through resolutions containing all these proposals in the House and Senate Budget Committees. The resolutions are likely to be approved by floor votes in both chambers this week. Moreover, contrary to the conventional wisdom of decades, which held that government spending could never be reined in enough to wipe out deficits because too many citizens would be outraged by losing federal help, many of the G.O.P. ideas stand an excellent chance of actually taking effect...
...assignment of three women--Vertefeuille, Smith and Grimes--reflected a sexist belief among the CIA's senior male executives that "little gray-haired old ladies," as one case officer put it, were best suited to perform the painstaking work of catching a mole. Computers might help, the prevailing wisdom went, but only the women had the patience and the skills to go through mountains of files and extract clues...