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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Millions of lip movers, right? Suckers for weensy wisdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Itty-Bitty | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...Crees have unsuccessfully fought the project for two decades, they now have a reasonable chance of at least stalling it when the courts rule on the case this summer. Growing environmental concern and worries about an uncertain economic climate have led some opinion leaders in Quebec to question the wisdom of spending as much as $31 billion on more dams. What particularly outrages the Crees is that Quebec doesn't need all that power, some of which may be sold to New England and New York. The Indians face the possibility of losing their hunting grounds so that Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bury My Heart at James Bay | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

...Wisdom Teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Comebacks | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...incredible shrinking Soviet Union. Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians might be going their own way, but I'd long assumed that once the epidemic of secessionism had run its course, the Ukrainians would remain citizens of a huge country with its capital in Moscow. Such is the conventional wisdom almost everywhere, certainly in my hometown of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...forbidden family trip across three great estates. Nothing much happens; everything is revealed. We leave young Marcel as he stretches toward puberty, sneaking a peek at the rest of his life. The boy is ready for it. He has been raised in the glory of his father's tutorial wisdom and sheltered in the castle of his mother's embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reliving Impossible Dreams | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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