Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...produce those expressions even when they sign bills declaring National Sawdust Week. But this time that look of thoughtful satisfaction was right for the occasion. Out-of-control deficits, like the ones heaped up in the 1980s, are historic disasters. Bringing them under control requires a rare convergence of wisdom, determination and good fortune. So when those things came together last week, everybody made a grab for the glory. Bill Clinton called the deal "a balanced budget with balanced values." Senate majority leader Trent Lott, with House Speaker Newt Gingrich behind him, exulted that "Washington must learn to make...
...these, the Army seems to manage the problem by moving it around. Despite stern warnings against this behavior, the documents show, investigations were flimsy, and perpetrators received light punishment or were shifted to other locations or quietly eased out. Only once in the reports did a commander question the wisdom of allowing recruiters guilty of such wrongdoing to continue in the field. "We have a perceived behavioral pattern of sexual harassment against female applicants," he wrote...
...BOOKS . . . THE WISDOM OF THE BODY: The new book (Knopf; 395 pages; $26.95) by Yale?s distinguished surgeon and bioethicist Sherwin B. Nuland presents an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book -- part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation -- that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not a religious man in any formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, ?We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws.? The basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body...
...current state of collegiate wisdom and maturity, however, I recognize that stereotypes exist, if only as social constructs. So why not enjoy them...
...flashes that banished sleep. There she was, lying in bed, soaking in her own sweat, awakened "at two-hour intervals every single night by a self-generated tropical typhoon." She knew the term hot flash but hadn't expected to encounter one this side of 50. What conventional wisdom had neglected to convey to Shandler is that long before menopause occurs and menstrual cycles cease, women in their 30s and 40s can be subject to distressing symptoms. Like adolescence in reverse, the transition out of fertility, called perimenopause, is a time of wild hormone swings. And they can trigger...