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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fidelity tower looms over the Boston skyline. He walks to work. Like all true Yankees, he has a visceral hatred of waste. Beneath his gentility is a steely confidence tempered by years of business combat. He has learned to trust his instincts. He loves to tack against conventional wisdom, as he did when he pioneered check-writing privileges for money-market funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A QUIET PASSION FOR PERFORMANCE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

ATLANTA: Conventional wisdom holds that the safest time to fly is right after a plane crash raises concerns over safety. That and an astonishingly low $19 one-way airfare on some routes is what company officials hope will bring travelers back to ValuJet. The airline began operations again today, 15 weeks after flights were suspended June 17th in the aftermath of the May plane crash in the Everglades that that killed all 110 people aboard. After a lengthy review, ValuJet persuaded the Federal Aviation Administration its planes are safe. Not everyone is convinced. The association of Flight Attendants union filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come Fly With Us -->