Word: wiseness
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...wait in vain for this catalog of tiny ironies and insights to add up to something wise and new. Is it that the foibles of rich New Yorkers are getting just a little overskewered? Or that McInerney's characters, while capable of surprising themselves and one another, never surprise us? Or that we wish they were more worthy objects of our readerly sympathy ("I've facilitated the movement of capital around the globe like a bee mindlessly carrying pollen," laments an investment banker--poor little bee!)? Or maybe there's something monstrously asymmetrical about watching the wistful ripples that...
...profit increased a mere 82% in its last quarter. That's not enough for a $433 stock, which became a $381 stock in the days after the announcement. Google may foster a perception that it is beyond the muck of the marketplace, but Wall Street is rapidly getting wise to the less poetic realities of the situation...
...concluded that FISA is outdated, and that by perfecting the domestic spying program—so that authorities could only use the information in the pursuit of terrorism and not other crimes—the program would also be wise policy...
Given the stellar growth of the endowment in recent years coupled with needs in the life sciences and a push to grow the Faculty, top deans and professors say the looming deficits represent a wise and overdue use of Harvard’s billions...
...part by evolutionary forces, offering advantages for the whole species. Human beings' comparatively long life spans and extended families are very good things, but keeping big broods healthy and well behaved over the decades takes more than the energy of young parents. It takes the cool heads and wise counsel of the family graybeards too. "Evolution isn't just about reproduction," Levenson says. "When you get into your 40s and 50s, you're caretaking, looking after your children, grandchildren, even the people who work for you. There's an advantage to having a more relativistic mind...