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Article: So much for convention.(Opinion)
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- McKnight's Long-Term Care News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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In The Affluent Society, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith coined a term for ideas or explanations viewed as being generally true: conventional wisdom.
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