111.   A NEED FOR PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP One piece of conventional wisdom making the rounds these days is that investors may prefer the gridlock that a close presidential election brings.

112.   A profit slowdown, conventional wisdom goes, would weigh heavily on share prices, and at the very least, stall the bull run.

113.   A nationwide series of focus groups conducted jointly by leading Democratic and Republican pollsters largely contradicts conventional wisdom and could change the way the presidential race is viewed.

114.   A successful dual-track life as mother and professional, therefore, required heroic energy or a flouting of this conventional wisdom.

115.   A Swiss-owned bank with global aspirations, UBS Warburg has lately flown in the face of conventional wisdom.

116.   A second development was the discovery that adult brains continue to produce new cells, overturning conventional wisdom that brain cells are not replenished.

117.   A recent discovery that women wore woven clothes looks set to challenge conventional wisdom about the status of Stone Age women.

118.   A. Certainly the conventional wisdom would dictate that more of youhave with significant investments of this sort.

119.   A year ago, conventional wisdom held that Latin America would easily weather the Asian financial storm.

120.   A. I agree with your rejection of the conventional wisdom as distributed by your short-lived financial planner.