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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes the conventional wisdom...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Mike or Mark? | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

That perception was not lost in Jerusalem. Already torn over the wisdom of engaging in a negotiation that will require Israel to give up most or all of the Golan Heights at a time when Israelis are still digesting territorial concessions to the Palestinians, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was looking for a bolder, plainer statement of Syrian intentions. The usually optimistic Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, found the public remarks "too positive to be disappointing, but too general to be satisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After You, Hafez | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...Crick's DNA double helix -- came out of just this kind of "pure" research. Lederman supports the President's efforts to bring more coherence and high-level attention to science policy, but he warns the Administration not to put its eggs into too few baskets. "There is not enough wisdom in the world to say what projects are going to have big payoffs," Lederman observes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Tread on My Lab | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...Harvard complaint charges, "that Maurer & Sforza has reconsidered the wisdom of the Settlement Agreement and does not intend to make future payments as provided in the agreement...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Harvard Sues Plumber For $100K | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

...current movie The Remains of the Day reminds us, there was a time not long ago, the 1930s, when openly expressed doubts about the wisdom of democracy as a system of government were positively fashionable, even in established democratic societies. These days everybody pays at least lip service to the democratic ideal. Will that change? Just asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Democracy Losing Its Romance? | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

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