Laurie Russell from the Wise Group told MSPs there had been a move for a more strategic approach but Scotland had only got half way there and did not have the best of both worlds but the "worst of both worlds".
Randy Beeman, a 53-year-old managing director of the Wise Investor Group in Reston, Va.
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, remains publicly opposed to Turkish membership but has agreed to put high-level EU debate on the subject on hold until 2010, when a report on the future of the EU by a "group of the wise" (which was Mr Sarkozy's idea) is due to be delivered.
They cannot change the subject to defence without raising the question of Iraq and the growing rows among leading Republicans over what to do about it (James Baker, secretary of state under George Bush senior and head of a group of wise men known as the Iraq Study Group, all but argued this week that the invasion was a mistake).
Equality group The UKRC and WISE - the "leading organisation" for gender equality in science, engineering and technology - said it was not surprised by the findings.
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The World Wildlife Fund, a leading environmental group, called Shell's decision wise under the circumstances.
That decision could prove wise in the long term, says Prudential Equity Group analyst Mark Lipacis, who wrote in a research note that the deal makes strategic sense.
But it is unclear whether Culvahouse gave McCain any political advice on whether Palin was a qualified or wise choice, or left that to the small group of political advisers involved.
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Still vocal, Mandela and his wife Graca Machel have formed "The Elders" -- a group of 12 wise men and women who strive for peace.
People had hoped that a watered-down, temporary version of common eurozone debt, dreamed up by Germany's so-called "wise men" group of economic experts, might be a runner for the summit.
Dear college students, word to the wise: avoid party themes and costumes that involve mocking a particular ethnicity, country, religious group, or type of people.
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It's never wise to generalize, yet it is safe to say that, as a group, the men and women who endured the Depression and World War II played it straight when it came to putting their trust in financial institutions.
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