Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, I based my preparation for this match, played two weeks ago in New York City, on the conventional wisdom of what would constitute good anticomputer strategy. Conventional wisdom is--or was until the end of this match--to avoid early confrontations, play a slow game, try to out-maneuver the machine, force positional mistakes, and then, when the climax comes, not lose your concentration and not make any tactical mistakes...
...love to see something nasty happen to Microsoft and Intel, if only for the change of pace--such bluster hardly constitutes proof of illegal behavior. "I don't think there's any question that the suit is a negotiating ploy," says Mercury Research analyst Mike Feibus. The current industry wisdom is that Digital's aim is to gain an out-of-court settlement that would give it a foothold in Intel's fortunes--either a cross-licensing agreement granting access to Intel innovations for Digital products or a role in the development of Intel's new 64-bit chip, code...
...really love the dining services people. They are incredibly nice," says Mather resident Grace K. L. Katabaruki '99. "When I had my wisdom teeth taken out they got me applesauce and soup in my room...
...produce an entire special issue of TIME with a writing staff of one would seem the sheerest folly. But if the focus of the issue is American art and the writer is Robert Hughes, then it begins to look like wisdom. For nobody comes to the subject better primed than Hughes. He has observed the U.S. art scene firsthand since becoming TIME's art critic in 1970. Three years ago, he embarked on a historical, eight-part TV series about it, also called American Visions, which is airing on pbs from May 28 to June 18. In conjunction with...
Nothing can hurt the duck but its bill," Larry Hoover liked to tell members of his gang. The parable--one of many bits of wisdom the leader of the largest street gang in the U.S. was fond of imparting to his followers--implied that a duck is safe so long as it doesn't open its mouth and start making noise. It was a sound precept. And one that "the Chairman," as he is known, no doubt reflected upon during the eight weeks he spent in a Chicago federal courtroom watching the jury listen to secretly recorded conversations through which...