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	Conventional vs. current wisdom
		Conventional wisdom for keyboard distance is that it should be approximately at the front of the work surface.
		Conventional wisdom regarding a chair is that the chair should be at a height that allows the feet to reach the floor when the legs are in the "conventional wisdom" position of 90 degrees (at the knee).
		Conventional practice puts the monitor on top of the CPU --- the best solution in most cases is to put the monitor on the work surface, because of the monitor height issue.
	www.office-ergo.com /conventi.htm (1139 words)

	Short shelf life for conventional wisdom - theage.com.au
		Everywhere you look, conventional wisdom is under siege, fretting about whether to worry more about global warming or dirty bombs; and whether to ask the waitress to hold the rice pilaf or the blue-cheese dressing.
		The trouble with this type of conventional wisdom, Galbraith suggested, wasn't necessarily that it was erroneous, but that it had been around so long that it tended to stifle creative thinking and concentrate power in the hands of the few.
		Conventional wisdom was the dogmatic foundation of 20th century capitalism.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/07/1028157960814.html (753 words)

	Conventional wisdom often not wise
		Conventional wisdom is the notion of what everyone is thinking is probably right.
		When you take the "conventional wisdom" approach to investing, you might also get steered into making decisions based on what everyone believes to be true, whether it is or not.
		The conventional wisdom in the late 1990s was "earnings didn't matter" because things were different this time.
	www.azcentral.com /abgnews/articles/0112abg-investing12.html (618 words)

	AJR - Arrows Up for Conventional Wisdom Watch
		For the past seven years, since the 1988 presidential campaign, readers of News-week have pondered the meaning of the Conventional Wisdom Watch, never certain if it is meant to be a joke or if there's some truth to their sneaking suspicion that, in fact, the joke is on them.
		The Conventional Wisdom Watch is the brainchild of Jonathan Alter, the newsweekly's media columnist and a senior editor, and Mickey Kaus, once a News-week senior editor and now in the same position at The New Republic.
		So the Conventional Wisdom Watch, or the "CW," as it is known to the anointed, was created as a sort of sanctuary, a place where the magazine could join in on political speculation without joining the media circus.
	www.ajr.org /article_printable.asp?id=2108 (931 words)

	Conventional wisdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conventional wisdom may be either true or false.
		The idea of Conventional Wisdom is also used in a political sense, often related closely with the phenomenon of Talking Points.
		One such example was conventional wisdom in 1960, even among most doctors, dictated that smoking was not particularly harmful to one's health.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conventional_wisdom (416 words)

	Sustainable Development, by David Korten
		When conventional wisdom calls for incentives for private investors, it is in fact calling for subsidies that commonly take the form of agreeing to let firms increase its private gain by transferring a larger portion of its production costs to the public.
		Conventional: The conventional wisdom is grounded in accepted theory that has stood the test of time and been validated by extensive historical observation and measurement.
		Alternative: The conventional wisdom represents an ideology, not a science, and largely contradicts both the theoretical foundations of market economics and empirical experience which contrary to the claims of the conventional wisdom strongly favor the alternative wisdom.
	dieoff.org /page86.htm (1851 words)

	A Portrait of Jesus \| Two Kinds of Wisdom
		Conventional wisdom tells us how to live - it is what we are socialized into as we grow up in any given culture.
		Conventional wisdom is based on rewards and punishments - "you reap what you sow" is standard in every culture.
		Conventional wisdom is a culture's domestication or map of reality built of language, words, systems of ordering.
	www.united.edu /portrait/wisdom1.shtml (539 words)

	Challenging Conventional Wisdom Can Optimize Solder Reflow
		Applications for which this conventional profile are appropriate include: a) pastes that require a dwell time at 150-160ºC to allow for flux activation and b) IR-based ovens that create large temperature differentials (D T) on the surface of the PCB.
		Conventional Wisdom #2: Reflowing double-sided boards in a full convection oven should be avoided, since it can cause components to be blown off the bottom side of the PCB.
		Conventional Wisdom #3: Tombstoning is caused by accelerated heating, when exceptionally high ramp-up rates — 6 to 7ºC/second — cause the solvents in the paste to boil, creating bubbles that can literally pop components out of place.
	www.hellerindustries.com /ma1.htm (1742 words)

	Conventional Wisdom
		One reason viewers may turn off the conventions is that media coverage of conventions offers little more than the conventional wisdom of the media.
		This is one of those chestnuts of the conventional wisdom that is so widely repeated that its perversity is successfully obscured.
		At both conventions, viewers will wait in vain for serious coverage, or side-by-side comparisons, of the stands on the issues that the parties are taking.
	www.pacificresearch.org /pub/cap/2000/00-07-25.html (445 words)

	Safe Haven \| Conventional Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Again, this was contrary to "Conventional Wisdom." From the May high down to the recent low, gold has dropped by some 23%.
		Since very early in 2006 I have been telling subscribers that the odds were that the 4-year cycle low would not come in the fall of 2006 as most anticipated, but rather in 2007 in a bit of a stretched 4-year cycle.
		As a result the euphoria is running high and in turn "Conventional Wisdom" is that we have dodged the bullet in the stock market and that we now have clear sailing.
	www.safehaven.com /article-6045.htm (1627 words)

	Conventional Wisdom about Information Technology: Publications: Virtual Diplomacy Initiative: U.S. Institute of Peace
		It turned out that the ability of a post-industrial society to generate conventional wisdom, however, is great.
		I would suggest a few points of skepticism on every one of those elements of conventional wisdom, not, again, to say that they are not true, but as a starting point for discussion.
		It is, as I said, interesting to see why the conventional wisdom is not the case.
	www.usip.org /virtualdiplomacy/publications/papers/fukuyamavd.html (1250 words)

	Wisdom
		Conventional wisdom covers all understanding of the world as it functions, including science, but apart from ultimate wisdom.
		Ultimate wisdom can be compared to eco-thinking in biology: a century ago, biology focused mainly on categorising species of animals and plants and describing their specific aspects.
		Dualistic experience could be understood in terms of a multitude of ways: conventional appearance as dualistic appearance, subject and object duality or separateness as being dualistic appearance; or as a generated image through which we can conceive as object, that image can be seen as dualistic appearance.
	www.geocities.com /buddhism2001/wisdom.html (2697 words)

	Scout.com: Forget Conventional Wisdom, Florida Will Win
		Conventional wisdom says that LSU has too much speed, too much power, too much defense and too many great athletes for the Gators to handle.
		Conventional wisdom says the Tigers beat Florida last year despite turning the ball over five times and giving up five sacks.
		Conventional wisdom says that an NC State team that has lost to Akron and Southern Miss can't possibly beat those folks from the Old Coaches Rest Home in Tallahassee but darned if they didn't.
	florida.scout.com /2/576671.html (1813 words)

	HSLDA \| Op-ed — Creating a new "Conventional Wisdom"
		Something is "conventional wisdom" until it is shown to be inaccurate and a new conventional wisdom takes its place.
		However, in time, the conventional wisdom will be overturned as more and more people come into contact with the burgeoning numbers of home-school graduates.
		It will be impossible to ignore a new generation of graduates who will be interacting with society with such ease that it may become possible to recognize a home-school graduate because he or she is so well-socialized.
	www.hslda.org /docs/news/washingtontimes/200505020.asp (821 words)

	CONVENTIONAL WISDOM AND RWANDA'S GENOCIDE
		The generation of such "conventional wisdom" is not unusual; every social situation requires explanation that becomes part of common accepted knowledge.
		Below are seven items of "conventional wisdom" from the Rwanda refugee crisis which, in my view, misrepresent a complex reality and have served as poor guides for policy interventions.
		More precisely, "conventional wisdom" seems to be a hazard of the manner in which complex emergencies are handled.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v1/3/10.htm (4682 words)

	Conventional Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She shows not only that 'purely musical' conventions are tools for doing cultural work, but also that they act as a kind of barometer for the cultural work that particular eras feel the need of doing.
		Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues.McClary looks at musical history from new and unexpected angles and moves easily across a broad range of repertoires--the blues, eighteenth-century tonal music, late Beethoven, and rap.
		In considering the need for a different way of telling the story of Western music, Conventional Wisdom bravely tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8810.html (575 words)

	Shortcomings of Conventional Washington Wisdom
		It is the wisdom of the people that we absorb when we go back home, and the wisdom of the people is very much needed to counteract the Washington conventional wisdom, which is very much stuck in a rut.
		The Washington conventional wisdom, and I speak of a bipartisan wisdom, there is a lot of agreement here on some things that represent conventional wisdom that certainly needs to be challenged by ordinary common sense.
		Washington wisdom says we should balance the budget on the backs of the powerless, and that is passed down to the States and down to the city.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1996_cr/h960227a.htm (8072 words)

	SI.com - Fantasy Central - Neil Tardy: Be careful with conventional wisdom - Saturday June 10, 2006 6:21PM
		For instance, conventional wisdom had Alfonso Soriano stamped as the fantasy flop of 2006.
		That said, I'm not knocking conventional wisdom in fantasy baseball (for one thing, I produce a tiny, tiny shred of it myself).
		Conventional wisdom still prevails more often than not, as I've learned when I defied the experts on Felix Hernandez this year.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2006/fantasy/06/10/stat.rat/index.html (497 words)

	Franklin & Marshall - Conventional Wisdom Revisited
		In the meantime, the conventional wisdom is going to be--that there really is no longer any conventional wisdom regarding Philadelphia's role in Pennsylvania's gubernatorial politics.
		And we suspect the old conventional wisdom here might be in for some rough sledding in future elections as well.
		New Conventional Wisdom: "Remember what happened to John Lawless." Lawless, of course, is former state Representative John Lawless who narrowly lost his reelection bid after switching parties, not once but twice.
	www.fandm.edu /x3918.xml (1116 words)

	Creating a new 'conventional wisdom' - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - May 02, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Something is "conventional wisdom" until it is shown to be inaccurate and a new conventional wisdom takes its place.
		However, in time, the conventional wisdom will be overturned as more and more people come into contact with the burgeoning numbers of home-school graduates.
		It will be impossible to ignore a new generation of graduates who will be interacting with society with such ease that it may become possible to recognize a home-school graduate because he or she is so well-socialized.
	washingtontimes.com /metro/20050501-095938-4800r.htm (856 words)

	MyDD :: The Emergence of a New Progressive Conventional Wisdom
		Because those who buy into the DC conventional wisdom have tremendous control over the communication apparatus that helps to create the national conventional wisdom, their cliquish beliefs that Feingold was acting to bolster his 2008 prospects quickly became the national CW.
		Generally speaking, that conventional wisdom is detailed, based on significant research and experience, and stands in contrast to the conventional wisdom of Democrats in DC.
		These two sets of conventional wisdom are in active conflict with one another, both in DC on in the netroots.
	www.mydd.com /story/2006/3/20/181248/239 (4608 words)

	A Portrait of Jesus \| Jesus as Wisdom Teacher
		Jesus' alternative wisdom teaching undermines and subverts the social boundaries generated by the conventional wisdom of his day and ours.
		Jesus' wisdom teaching points to the world of conventional wisdom as a world of blindness.
		The radical change in perspective which characterizes the wisdom teaching of Jesus comes from a radically different experience of reality, the experience of the spirit of God.
	www.united.edu /portrait/wisdom2.shtml (610 words)

	Conventional wisdom / Visitors Bureau President John Marks looks back on 19 years in San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He is also candid about the challenges San Francisco and its $7.3 billion-a-year tourist trade have yet to surmount: a sometimes-seedy street scene, the flight of corporate headquarters from the city, the stress that millions of travelers put on San Francisco International Airport and its aging, closely configured runways.
		The expansion has put the city in a competitive position to vie for the medical conventions and high-tech trade shows that are its convention lifeblood, Marks said.
		Accomplishments during his 19-year tenure: Oversaw tripling of convention space at Moscone Center, lobbied for more hotels and new runways at SFO, was 2003 national chair of the Travel Industry Association of America.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/28/BUGIIJJF0K67.DTL (1622 words)

	Marketing Performance Management: Break Conventional Marketing Wisdom
		When a couple of economist-statistician types began aggregating baseball facts, they were able to describe and predict higher team performance using disciplined analysis of those facts.
		Here are two quick examples of breaking conventional wisdom and achieving stellar results.
		Conventional wisdom was that marketing had to spend on at least most of these million customers.
	chiefmarketer.com /conventional_marketing_wisdom_04282006/index.html (825 words)

	Conventional Wisdom
		By the Republican convention’s first night, after McCain and Giuliani had spoken, it was easy to sense that the race had turned a major corner.
		At a MoveOn.org event a week before the convention opened, a star-studded affair in an old Manhattan theater, Natalie Merchant had prefaced a song by noting that her antiwar and progressive views were not popular out there in America, sounding almost as if she were Pete Seeger in 1953.
		As the convention illustrated beyond a doubt, one of America’s great political parties has wholeheartedly embraced policies that put the country on a collision course with much of the world, in the process transforming a marginal fundamentalist Muslim thug into a hero for billions.
	www.amconmag.com /2004_09_13/feature.html (2509 words)

	Rent or Buy? Conventional Wisdom
		People can decide to rent or buy a home based on a detailed financial analysis, or a careful consideration of preferences, or both, but in fact they often make the decision based on belief or commonly accepted notions of what makes the most sense in a given situation.
		The conventional wisdom generally works because it reflects the preferences and experiences of a majority of people: most Americans have simply preferred to own their own homes, and economic trends and policies have rewarded that decision.
		This is particularly the case because it is only recently that the average person has had easy and cost-effective access to more profitable, if more risky, investments, and for much of the post-war period other investments, such as stocks and bonds, had mixed success (anyone remember the '60s and '70s?).
	www.mindspring.com /~wheiser/RentBuy/rb08.htm (916 words)

	Conventional Wisdom Boot Camp
		Our instructors have experience as convention chairmen and division managers at events ranging in size from under 50 to over 5,000 attendees.
		Conventional Wisdom workshops are a way to encourage volunteer staff to master new skills in new areas.
		It is designed to expose people to areas of a convention that they may not be familiar with and give them a foundation for further understanding.
	spfii.org /wisdom (316 words)

	Already in '07, There Are Signs the Conventional Wisdom Is Off (Common Sense) \| SmartMoney.com
		This is the time of year when I like to review the conventional wisdom, since the new year is filled with predictions which often turn out to be wrong.
		I agreed with the conventional wisdom that emerging markets were undervalued and offered good opportunities, although I urged waiting for a pullback — which came in late spring.
		This year, the first week's trading was an indication how much of the conventional wisdom rests on the assumption that the Fed has stopped raising rates, and will likely begin reducing them in 2007.
	www.smartmoney.com /commonsense/index.cfm?story=20070109 (973 words)

	History House: Conventional Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia is finding itself thronged with media-savvy protesters (they put infants, elderly, and wheelchair-bound paraplegics in the front of the line to reduce arrests) and unforeseen medical emergencies (former President Gerald Ford had some minor strokes).
		Prior to 1968,[1] only sixteen states had primaries with which to select delegates to send to their conventions.
		So as the fair city of Philadelphia wrestles with protesters and the headaches that accompany a national political convention (it's troublesome out there: Philly Police Commissioner John Timoney got his own bicycle thrown at him), we ask its citizens to be mindful that the nomination is at least vaguely democratic, unlike the old days.
	www.historyhouse.com /uts/party_conventions (896 words)

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