Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Budget Director Richard Darman, who later called it the "biggest mistake of Bush's presidency." After watching the Bush tapes, Clinton's aides vowed to make sure that Clinton sells -- and if necessary oversells -- his plan, if that's what it takes to convince Americans of the plan's wisdom...
...while some Americans seem to be gaining wisdom on the health front, there are troubling signs that others may be forgetting it. For one, the antismoking campaign is in a rut. The CDC reported that in 1991, the latest year for which numbers are available, 25.7% of the population smoked, about the same as in 1990; thus a 24-year annual decline in cigarette use seems to have leveled...
...argument over how to interpret Maya writing -- along with arguments over just about every other aspect of Maya archaeology -- won't be resolved anytime soon. New discoveries are constantly reinventing the conventional wisdom. At Caracol, for example, the Chases have uncovered an unprecedented 74 relic- filled tombs; their location, in living areas, supports the idea of ancestor worship, and the number of burial chambers provides evidence, the Chases think, that the Maya had a large, prosperous "middle class...
...Folk wisdom, as well as some medical research, has suggested that megadoses of vitamins may prevent breast cancer. Not true, says a new, large-scale study. An investigation of nearly 90,000 women over the course of a decade has found no evidence that vitamin C or E offers any protection at all. Vitamin A supplements don't help either, unless a woman gets too little in her diet...
...thus among the more implausible. It is also the most annoying, because Cosby's hangers-on are so strenuously pushing the notion, because it is such an indulgence of Cosby's self-righteous vanity, and because the story is a fabric of so many spurious bits of conventional wisdom...