Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position is, therefore, not that I favor a rapid withdrawal as a matter of policy but that I see the strong possibility of such a withdrawal as a matter of prediction-and I have come to the reluctant belief that the war is probably destined for a messy ending sooner than most Americans expect...
...Latin American relations. Many countries view U.S. investment as a form of economic colonialism that extracts more than it puts in. "We will not encourage U.S. private investment where it is not wanted or where local political conditions face it with unwarranted risks," Nixon said. "But my own strong belief is that properly motivated private enterprise has a vital role to play." Nixon plainly had in mind Bolivia's recent nationalization of the U.S.-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co. and Peru's seizure last year of the International Petroleum Co. -both so far without compensation. The President said...
...Thus, we have Hokanson frantically calling the press in order to nullify the Constitutional rights of nearly 500 students to freely and publicly express themselves on an abominable war in Vietnam. One cannot help but think that lurking beneath his impolitic and stupid actions was a deep and abiding belief that Business School students-and most especially Harvard Business School students-just aren't supposed to get involved with controversial issues. What all of us witnessed last week was simply the great lengths to which the conservative faction of the SA will go to insure that "B" School students' views...
...lives. These may be inflated figures, but most experts think that the proportion of homosexuals in the U.S. adult population has not changed drastically since Kinsey did his survey, giving the country currently about 2,600,000 men and 1,400,000 women who are exclusively homosexual. Despite popular belief, these numbers are not substantially increased by seduction: most experts now believe that an individual's sex drives are firmly fixed in childhood...
Another passenger, an elderly woman, spoke for about 15 minutes with a cheerleader expressing the belief that students are the only productive force in society today...