Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political campaign genre. Steve Forbes' Web site-www.Forbes2000.com-touts such resounding endorsements as this one from Rush Limbaugh, "The leading conservative...would have to be Steve Forbes, I think. Steve Forbes is doing everything right...I admire Mr. Forbes, and he's doing the right thing." With homespun wisdom like that, how can you go wrong...
...could prove useful. An index on pages five and six instructs searchers "WHERE TO FIND HELP, When," among other mishaps, "Friends Fail," "Lonely" or "Trouble, In." But the men were gone by four o'clock, and I don't know when they'll be back to offer texts of wisdom to everyone else. I can confidently assert, however, that FM has always, does always and will always come out on Thursday mornings, chock full of information on fun stuff to do. And just as those at the wedding in Cana had to drink wine made from water and Mary...
Simply put, as an interesting and inspirational speaker, Greenspan just doesn't match up to the world leaders and Cold War heroes who have paraded through the Yard in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that Greenspan will not--in fact, cannot--say anything of import, because if he did, it would cause significant shocks to the world economy. In a now-famous incident in 1996, Greenspan commented that gains in the stock market at the time might have been caused by "irrational exuberance." In response to his skeptical comments, markets around the world tumbled...
...disappointment when I read the trite suggestions that Gates came up with. Insist on e-mail? Study sales data online? My four-year-old nephew could have come up with such gems while watching Barney on the boob tube. Who is Gates' target audience for these pearls of wisdom? SANJAY THOMAS Ottawa...
...choice for Person of the Century because he showed us a way out of the destructive side of our human nature. He demonstrated that we can force change and justice through moral acts of aggression instead of physical acts of aggression. Never has our species needed this wisdom more. --Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer...