Search Details

Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

These realities have become an issue in recent court decisions. Judges point to high levels of residential segregation as the root cause of school segregation and question the wisdom of using children and schools to remedy adults' preferences for isolating themselves by income and race. This year the Supreme Court ruled that voluntary school-integration plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., violated the rights of students to be judged on individual merit even if the ruling means that many schools remain segregated by race and class. It was a sad decision, acknowledging the defeat of the ideals and aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Little Rock | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...then did the programming to make the 200 documents—dating from 1982 to 1992—searchable. “The original goal was to have a way for council members to look at our history so that when they are proposing ideas, they can gain wisdom from the past,” Ragalie said. His interface uses search technology that allows readers to find keywords anywhere in the body of a document and includes an option to filter queries by the type of document desired or the session of council from which it dates. Ragalie, who said...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC To Refresh Web Site Design | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...producer and consultant Robert Cain spent several years working in Moscow, and though he has hopes for the future, he has little positive to say about the current state of Russian moviemaking. "Russians seems to be good at bringing knowledgeable people to Russia and then ignoring every bit of wisdom they offer up," he says. "And corruption is just an enormous obstacle. A contract in Russia is essentially worthless. If someone decides to misbehave, you have little chance to bring a lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reel Russia | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...head of the military, drop corruption charges against her and give up the power to dissolve parliament. U.S. officials predict Bhutto's popularity will spike if she returns to power in an alliance with the general because she'll be seen as a counterweight to Musharraf. "The conventional wisdom is that would be enough to steady her numbers," says a U.S. State Department official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Musharraf's Final Chapter? | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...sees. He catches her--she can't get away with it. And his last words were "What're ya crying about? You're gonna die too." Chris McCandless lived too short, that's true, but he, in my view, put an entire life from birth to the wisdom of age into those years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature Boys | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | Next