Actually, John Kerry's career from Vietnam on has not been marked by either particular strength or wisdom.
The fact that corn-ethanol production has continued to grow, despite the failure of a number of firms in late 2008 and early 2009, points to the efficacy of the various protections and subsidies it enjoys (falling maize prices helped too), though it says nothing about their efficiency or wisdom.
No one has the authority, the power or the wisdom to break the chain.
Introduce yourself to influencers at industry conferences, ask questions and be prepared with a nugget of subject matter or industry wisdom you can share.
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Members of this group follow one another on a special Facebook page, where we post our latest blogs, tell of an impending piece to be featured in a periodical, announce a book launch, revel in our work having been accepted by a publisher, post the news of a potential writing job or share wisdom about our industry.
Judgment about the wisdom or practicality of making a radical left turn into right livelihood.
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But there was no reform or even larger wisdom that came out of the Reagan-Volcker rollback of inflation.
The entertaining, portly coaching lifer made a career out of delivering basketball wisdom or a restaurant review with equal aplomb.
Each brain candy offers a tip, a technique, or words of wisdom.
But it also became clear, when my questions about the wisdom or otherwise of disbanding the Iraqi army visibly nettled him, that he was a man uncomfortable with press scrutiny.
There are critics of the Singularity concept featured here, but for the most part, the criticism is about the wisdom or ethics of some of the proposed technologies.
The same way agile leaders make sure to surround themselves with people who complement their gaps, agile mothers create networks where they provide, as well as receive, support, wisdom or, many times, just words of encouragement.
This suggests that, rather than pushing companies to explore some new area which the government in its wisdom or folly has decided is the sector of the future, industrial policy should encourage competition instead, thus reducing firms' tendency to seek out less contested arenas.
Jacob knows a thing or two about the wisdom of waiting to see how a company and its stock perform post-IPO before jumping in.
Here are five holiday shopping factoids to emerge thus far this holiday shopping season that debunk conventional wisdom (or retail punditry spin) and might raise some eyebrows.
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Whether because of their age, image or interests, some people just don't seem like likely fans of Twitter's 140-character bursts of wit and wisdom (or ... you know ... other stuff).
Perhaps the received wisdom (conventional or unorthodox, or whatever you want to call it) needs to be revisited.
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That's not my guess--it's how the bettors at Tradesports (www.tradesports.com) see it. (Tip: Take bettor wisdom over Zogby or Gallup any day.) For Democrats to assume control, James Webb will have to upset George Allen in Virginia, an unlikely possibility two months ago but plausible since Allen's verbal gaffes.
What distinguishes KMV's default-warning system is that it doesn't rely on the wisdom of one person or a handful of people.
The oddballs, misfits, newcomers, the older women who've had their careers or raised their children, lost their husbands to death or divorce, and possess real wisdom.
First was an unwillingness to be snowed by conventional wisdom, technical jargon or the fairy tales of universal knowledge that abound when everything was still mostly talk and potential.
Or maybe these senators are awaiting the wisdom of some of the other nonpermanent members.
Until the past decade or so, it had been accepted wisdom in the genetics community that only the tiniest percentage of the human genome contains the instructions that determine how we look, feel and act whether we (or our ancestral population group) are more likely to be grumpy or gregarious, impetuous or cautious, generous or a Grinch, a speedster or a marathoner, slow-witted or a math ace.
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And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster.
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The conventional wisdom is that after another year or two, interest rates are bound to go up as investors penalize lawmakers for their profligate ways by demanding higher yields.
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Virginia need not reach to London, to New York, to dignified yet bygone American figures like Ernest Hemingway, or even deep into its past for the wisdom of such great Virginians as Jefferson (and, for that matter, George Washington, James Madison, and John Marshall, also on record in this matter).
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Again, against prevailing wisdom, they may not be proficient (or even familiar) with the tasks of the team.
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