If the politician has used drugs, conventional wisdom says it is best to try to get the question out of the way early.

Conventional wisdom says that computers are a necessary tool for higher education.

The conventional wisdom says Clinton is afraid of being convicted.

Conventional wisdom says the Fed will continue to raise rates throughout much of 2005.

Conventional wisdom says the energy required to run a mile is the same, no matter whether you are fast or slow.

"The prevailing wisdom used to be that you don't change something that's working," he said.

Conventional wisdom says most Americans are happy in these best of economic times.

But wisdom said she was to creep rather than race.

But the wisdom does not yet say what that new international monetary system should be.

But the conventional wisdom does not yet say how this is to be done.