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...staff would have been wise not to take this position, and sometimes it is more important to be wise than to be right...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Editorial Serves No Purpose | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

Summer job experiences are crucial for the appreciation of the second year of business school, she held, "but a lot of students, including me, would be penny-wise and pound-foolish and decide to go through the MBA in 16 months...

Author: By Jeff Beals, | Title: B-School Students Oppose New Calendar | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...good description of the adrenaline-pumped two-hour premiere episode. Since then, ER has settled back into more conventional storytelling, with predictable character developments, comic interludes and some unwelcome sentimentality. On last week's episode, surgeon Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) brought his young daughter to the hospital, and her wise- child observations were enough to induce diabetic shock. (Talking to a little girl whom her father has just treated: "My daddy's your doctor." "(Will) he help make me better?" "That's what doctors do.") Still, the show has retained its grungy immediacy, without the hand-held-camera affectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Angels with Dirty Faces | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...very wise move," said Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality Brendan A. Maher. "They will be factual. I know both of [them] very well...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin and Sarah J. Schaffer, S | Title: Profs. to Examine Benefits Review | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

...Sensabaugh cautions that a DNA database of all individuals might not be a wise idea. He worries that the database could be used for new forms of genetic discrimination. "I don't want one, and you probably don't either," Sensabaugh says...

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: Fingering Statistics On O.J.'s DNA | 10/25/1994 | See Source »

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