In an older era, a person was accounted wise if he or she attained to a practical mastery of one tradition.
Accounting-wise, it's completely worthless.
"The exchange rate and the salary cap have both kept down costs for Canadian teams, because salaries are paid in U.S. dollars," said Drew Dorweiler of the Montreal valuation and accounting firm Wise, Blackman.
One thing is clear, however: The tale that Bowden tells is almost solely from the perspective of a small group of people in Washington, just about all of whom, in his account, were wise and selfless.
Energy strategic planning is one of the world's main concerns to cover the fast-growing energy demand taking into account the wise use of available energy resources to achieve the optimum electricity generation mix.
Author George Stewart considers Trudeau's accounting to Wise more accurate than what he told Houghton in 1884, and asserted that he deserted the Donners.
Michael Blakemore's Arguments with England (Faber) is a lucid and absorbing theatrical memoir - there's an especially vivid account of touring with Olivier - but it's also a wise account of a young man's coming of age, privately and professionally.
A wise account of Benjamin Franklin's diplomatic brilliance, revealed in Paris at 70. CAMPO SANTO, by W. G. Sebald.
A wise account of Benjamin Franklin's diplomatic brilliance, revealed in Paris at 70. OMAHA BLUES: A Memory Loop, by Joseph Lelyveld.
Although Stearns dutifully makes some policy proposals — more carefully directed aid with conditions on it; more stringent regulation of "mining cowboys"; a mechanism for holding the worst perpetrators to account — he is wise enough to know how difficult it will be to halt 15 years of violence and pillage.
