The message has come through with great clarity: The old verities of conservative financial management are dead - long live borrowing to the hilt!

In less than two months, he has junked old economic verities.

The lid was about to blow on many of the old social verities.

However, an attentive listener back then might have sensed that the old verities were beginning to lose their power.

Yet ask most women their image of a good mother, and the old verities come tumbling forth.

Now he is gone, the old verities are swept away, and there has not been time for a new tradition to grow strong roots.

That increase helped to persuade many economists that it was a new era, one in which old economic verities might not apply.

Alexander knows the old verities about playing together and building up mutual respect and familiarity.

It must seem sometimes to lovers of classi-cal music that all the old verities are crumbling under their feet.

The old verities that have guided this country's national security policy for 45 years, and thus, its intelligence service, have disappeared in an historical instant.