Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What they all have in common is the ability to crush their nebulous thoughts into diamonds of political wisdom. Los Angeles Times political analyst William Schneider calls it the talent of "being pithy" and Kennedy School Lecturer Hale Champion calls it "info-tainment...
...least for the purpose of this new techno-thriller, his best by far since The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton accepts the charge that genetic research these days is a headlong, unregulated profit-and-glory grab by microbiologists with more skill than wisdom. Suppose, says Crichton, that a respectable paleozoologist (call him Alan Grant) begins to get increasingly detailed queries from a secretive corporate donor about what infant dinosaurs ate. Grant sends in his best guess. More questions follow, and they have a ring of urgency. What is this...
...Young Democrats, may rise higher, but for now their activism is their greatest claim to power. Ungarn's party holds only 21 seats in the parliament, but she is confident its influence is growing. "We will control the government in 10 years," she says, "but not before." With rare wisdom, she acknowledges that the women of the East "need time to learn the profession of politics. Being in the opposition is very different from running the government...
...Endangered Species Act. Their aim is to expand greatly the powers of a committee of political appointees that already can exempt species from the protection of the act when man's economic interests so dictate. The committee is commonly known as the "God Squad," not for its collective wisdom but because the decisions it may render were once left to an even higher authority...
...rally enthusiasm at Saturn, the venture has given rise to a litany of doubts both inside and outside GM about the wisdom of adding another car line when the automaker's factories are running at only 80% of capacity. GM was forced to close 11 plants in the 1980s and is likely to shut four more plants in the next three years. Says rival automaker Lee Iacocca: "GM needs another car line like they need a hole in the head...