Word: wises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...taught me and a few hundred other residents in orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He was our undisputed Grand Old Man of Orthopedics, in his time one of the most prominent orthopedic surgeons in the world. In my time he was wonderful, friendly and wise-a big, smiling, grandfather whose plain Midwestern manners stuck out like the sun among the darker heavenly bodies of the Upper West Side's professorial (read distant, arrogant) medical establishment...
...years," Buckler says. And government ministers aren't complaining about being muzzled. "We've all been told to be prudent, because when you're in government your words carry different weight than in opposition," says Agricultural Minister Chuck Strahl, a 12-year M.P. "We've all been given the wise advice, Don't just flap off at the gills...
...answer is, very. The business of the film is to explain why this amiable hunk is being circled by spooky Mr. Goodkat (a tight-lipped Bruce Willis), a wise-guy cop (Stanley Tucci) and two crime lords (Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman). To call the film's plot labyrinthine is to understate the case. To say it works out with complete plausibility is to overstate it. Still, the story never runs completely off the rails and is, in any event, just a pretext for a lot of very sharp badinage by Jason Smilovic--a screenwriter who would have been...
...wants to leave a White House, particularly this White House - it?s hard leaving the family," said one of the few people privy to what really happened. "Andy was just wise enough to push the President to say, ?This is a good time to change.'" A wily veteran of Massachusetts politics, Card has been predicting his own departure since Nov. 1, 2001, when he told a Boston audience, "The half-life for a chief of staff is two years... There are very few people who had the experience I am having that survived very long, and that is appropriate. There...
...Perhaps history is a wise teacher and a solution to Iraq's problems can be found in the example of Yugoslavia. If the Shi'ites and the Sunnis refuse to cooperate, let them form separate states. Otherwise, they will continue to battle. The Shi'ites don't want to share the power that they have gained since Saddam's overthrow, and the Sunnis refuse to accept minority status in the new government. If dissolving the former Soviet empire and breaking up its satellite states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia made sense, why doesn't separation make sense for Iraq? Bob Mason...