Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that the conventional wisdom about midterm elections -- that they are won by the turnout of party loyalists, i.e., the religious right -- will keep the GOP moderates relegated to their customary place in the wings (just ask private citizen William Weld). "Winning over moderate voters will be crucial in the presidential election," he says, "but in the midterms, you win by getting out your core voters...
Could this be the face of 21st century capitalism? You'd better believe it. Two years ago, conventional wisdom still derided the World Wide Web as an amusing toy with little practical application. No more. With striking speed, the business that Yahoo (or, as the company formally calls itself, Yahoo!) has been pioneering has grown into nothing less than a new economic order, a Net Economy! whose exclamation point came last week, when shares of Yahoo surged to more than $200 (closing at $181 on Friday), making billionaires of two young men who just a generation ago would only...
...contradict themselves, these guides often contradict one another. One CEO succeeds because of his maniacal attention to detail. The next CEO's secret is setting broad goals and keeping her eye on the big picture. One CEO is glorified as a hyperkinetic workaholic. Another is praised for the wisdom of adopting a measured pace and leaving plenty of time for long-term reflection. If she reads thick history books as an avocation, that's a plus. If she invariably lugs home a pile of spreadsheets, that's also a plus...
While conventional wisdom holds that any sane person, given the chance, would depart Cambridge as soon as possible for Cape Cod or the Maine Coast or Martha's Vineyard or Newport, it just isn't the case. Cambridge's long hot months have a lot going for them...
...elephant years. It's got enough plot, in 100 spiky minutes, for an entire season of Melrose Place (if that show were totally weird and funny). It has two births, two deaths, five sexual affairs and no special effects. Writer-director Don Roos' film also has a gnarled wisdom about modern romance, straight and gay, that makes it a road-movie Chasing Amy, a Heathers for the whole postnuclear family...