Word: wising
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Conventional economic wisdom holds that the free market alone should determine which companies and industries succeed and fail. A company’s decisions, whether they are wise or poor, are its own to make, and it should have to face consequences of those decisions. The American auto industry giants—namely, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler—have made a number of poor, if not self-destructive, choices in the past decade, culminating in their current liquidity crisis. While a healthy economy would survive the bankruptcy of a Big Three auto giant, any such failure could plunge...
...accomplish in the spring,” sophomore Grace Charles said. ATLANTIC COAST CHAMPIONSHIPWild weather led to a shortened slate of competition for the co-ed field, but Harvard stayed strong in the five-race event. “We went in expecting a pretty rough weekend both weather-wise and because the competition was really good,” sophomore Teddy Himler said. A lack of wind on Saturday prevented any races from occurring, and heavy winds on Sunday caused the Crimson to readjust its lineup, switching out its normal crews for heavy crews Himler and sophomore John Stokes...
...Ormindo” is a lovely two-hour entertainment for any lover of the Italian language. It delivers, amidst the superfluity, beautiful lines like “Lui che è saggio ama ogni modo” (“He who is wise loves every which way”), and provides the perfect escape into la lingua d’amore...
...Ptolemy Tompkins' recent books include The Beaten Path: Field Notes on Getting Wise in a Wisdom-Crazy World and Paradise Fever: Growing Up in the Shadow...
...More painful than midterms, more arduous than papers, more awkward than Freshman Week, the various elections and selections of November can be so bad that one wise upperclassman cautioned me last year: “Don’t block with people you know from your activities. By next fall, they may not be your friends...