Word: wising
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...Biblical lineage ("...And Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas..."). There's too much in here to internalize on one reading, so - and what more praise does a book need - you're going to have to read it again. Even then, to paraphrase Potter's quote of the wise Thomas Edison, you probably still won't know a millionth of one percent about anything...
...they are adequately capitalized to withstand a significant economic downturn. Critics have claimed that the government’s worst-case economic condition forecasts are too weak, making the tests inadequate. Still, the tests should provide valuable information on the health of our banking system, and the administration was wise to order them. Should the results eventually show that any major bank is undercapitalized, the government should not hesitate in taking it into receivership...
...adult presence in the room, the one who could get people to sit down and reconcile their differences,” says Owen J. Clements, a member of the Law Review under Kagan’s leadership. “She struck me as wise beyond her years.”D.C.-BOUNDNominated to the post of solicitor general, Kagan may soon have the opportunity to exercise her diplomatic skills in the political arena, returning to a realm she left in 1999 after working for several years as an adviser in the Clinton White House.Though critics point to her lack...
...copies worldwide, but the difference is that his original was far superior: a deceptively simple but ultimately smart lesson on coping with the inevitability of change. Here, the penses are punier. A confused young Everyman journeys to the top of a mountain, where he is instructed by a wise old man given to restating the obvious ("Find and use the good that is hidden in the bad time"). The peaks and valleys of the title are the ups and downs of life that we all must master in our own way. Got it? Next time out, one hopes that...
...brace of polls indicated great faith in Obama, somewhat less faith in his proposed solutions, and a crushing consensus that the Republican Party seemed more interested in playing politics at a time of crisis than in behaving constructively. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a smart fellow if not yet a wise one, gave the Republican response to Obama's speech and quickly became the poster boy for his party's vacuity and cynicism. He had announced noisily that he was rejecting a portion of the stimulus money coming to his state - but it turned out to be a minuscule portion, little...