Word: wising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agents. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them...
...Angeles Times, a bit beset by federal antitrust action, feels more comfortable with a rival around. For a time, it helped Hearst print his strike-bound paper. Mayor Sam Yorty, a Democrat of sorts, put city hall on Hearst's side. "I think the unions should get wise to themselves," he said. "They're putting the newspapers out of business." More important, the city's big businessmen stuck with Hearst. Although the paper sold about 22% less advertising space, most of the major advertisers ignored union pickets and protests and continued to place sizable...
...weakness in the neo-Keynesian economics, which relies primarily on delicate adjustments in taxes, government spending and monetary policy to keep the economy running close to capacity. The New Economics had served well when business needed a push. But Britain's Keynes presumed that policymakers would always be wise enough, given knowledge of his theories, to do the right thing at the right moment. In the U.S., however, political leaders are usually unwilling to raise taxes quickly enough in overly expansive periods. The theories of the New Economics have not been found wanting; they have simply not been applied...
...like. Ask whatever you like, in questions that are not. If you won't play, don't come along--they played a game for the self-in-dulgent, or, at most, for the activist or the idealist-realist, momentary comfort in the irrelevant. Why not ask? Only the wise can be humiliated...
Rising, Feisal said: "We welcome and receive you as a great and wise king." In a courtly return, the Shah said that in Feisal's presence "I have a feeling of holiness, of getting closer to God." With the compliments out of the way, the Shah devoted special attention during the next few days to the Moslem tie that binds the Aryans of Iran, most of whom are members of the Shi'a sect, to the Arabs of the Sunni sect, who inhabit Saudi Arabia. The Shah prayed at the Prophet's mosque in the holy city...