Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief delegate, Paul Niculescu-Mizil, immediately jumped to his feet, threatening to leave the conference if he did not get an apology. By midnight, the Syrian had agreed to strike his remarks from the official record, enabling weary delegates to retire to their nicely furnished rooms in the belief that things had been patched up. But back in Bucharest, Ceausescu decided not to let matters rest there, demanded that the entire meeting vote an apology to Rumania. When the apology was not forthcoming, Niculescu-Mizil denounced Russia's "Stalinist tactics." Then the Rumanians walked out and within...
SOMEWHERE during the course of the past generation the belief that "80 per cent of all auto accidents are the fault of the driver" became established in the conventional wisdom of the traffic safety field. Repeatedly the institutions that have encouraged this belief have been challenged to produce acceptable evidence that it is so. Just as repeatedly the challenge has been ignored. Although the use of alcohol by drivers is known to be the chief factor in the initiation of fatal crashes, this constant emphasis on the culpability of drivers probably has the effect of lessening anxiety about the driving...
Among people who consider themselves sensitive, or philosophical, or earnest, it is fashionable to say the world is screwed up--more screwed up than they are. But few of these individuals are desperate enough--or have the courage--to make their belief real by acting at odds with the world. Those who do are called psychotic...
Together, Daniels, Parmiter, Goodman and Kirshenbaum go at their tasks in the belief that what we must aim to give the reader is not the results but the reasons...
...Ignored a report by a committee of negligence lawyers who approved of the present method of settling auto-liability claims because it "is derived from the religious belief that each of us is responsible to his God for his own conduct." Not quite so certain of divine sanction, the full house decided instead to order a comprehensive study of the procedure (TIME...