Word: wising
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...know what they say about friends in Washington: If you want one, get a dog. Barack Obama is pretty popular as Presidents go, but just in case, he has added a cute little bundle of fur to his Administration. Wise is the leader who plans ahead...
...spent 18 months wrestling with ‘The Cat and the Hat,’” she points out. “A poem isn’t easy either, but it’s short.”“Then again, Margaret Wise Brown wrote ‘Goodnight Moon’ in a morning,” she adds.Back in her “Childhood” class, Tatar introduces a guest lecturer: Newbery Medal recipient Lois Lowry. Author of modern children’s classics such as “The Giver?...
...Obama is wise, he will reflect not on Mexico's challenges, real as they are, but on what extraordinary strides the nation has made in the last quarter of a century. At the time of the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, Mexico's political system had ossified into an elective dictatorship, in which power was held by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for a staggering half-century. The economy has always had real challenges, like a difficult geography, with lots of desert and few navigable rivers. The long impoverishment of the Indian population blighted the whole nation's economic prospects...
...which produces environmentally harmful byproducts such as carbon dioxide emissions—with a system that would rely only on 100 percent clean electricity. In light of the dangers that our planet faces in the immediate and distant future, the Mass. General Court’s decision is a wise choice that signifies a keen awareness of the importance of energy policy...
...famously, in a country still wracked by racial violence, he chose the Zulu war anthem, "Bring Me My Machine Gun" as a theme song - and about his competence and judgment. He refuses to answer questions on policy, deferring instead to the ANC's executive committee. His coyness may be wise: those opinions he has aired have been startling. On trial for rape in 2006, a charge of which he was acquitted, he revealed he thought a shower could prevent HIV infection. Among his supporters, all that only adds to his appeal: Zuma has a populist following in the townships where...