Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From "The Conventional Wisdom," released yesterday morning (before Ross Perot's dramatic announcement but after manager Ed Rollins left the campaign): "Now we know what EDS stands for--Ed Didn't Stay...
...decision hardly came as a surprise to executives of the French defense contractor Thomson-CSF. For months the U.S. defense community had been debating the wisdom of allowing the company, 60% owned by the French government, to buy Dallas-based LTV Corp.'s missile business. The issue was resolved by the Treasury Department's interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which responded on the eve of the Fourth of July with a resounding "Non!" The panel voted to recommend to President Bush this week a rejection of Thomson-CSF's $300 million offer, based on widespread concern...
Christening Cohen "the Condom Man," the giggling youths ask questions, then pass the phone around the room so that everyone has a chance to receive Cohen's wisdom...
...faculty members have academic wisdom that graduate students lack. they can help motivate and push students to succeed with tools that the average graduates students need in an advisor is experience, and that is what the faculty is member can offer...
...Freud took two pieces of Vermont folk wisdom and turned them into a science," says psychiatry professor Thomas Gutheil of Harvard medical school. "The first was, 'There's a whole lot more to folks than meets the eye.' This became known as the theory of the unconscious. The second was, 'Keep your mouth shut and you might learn something.' He changed the position of the doctor from that of an authoritarian giving orders to a more receptive role. Freud said, 'Let the patient talk and tell the story...