Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter has asked for legislation to tighten the loopholes that permit such abuses, but there is a common belief, fanned by some of the President's own charges, that Congress is a patsy for petroleum interests. The impression is strengthened by Congress's own inaction on energy policy. Sometimes, however, the foot dragging is actually helpful. Last week, for instance, a House committee sensibly refused to give Carter stand-by authority to order gas-station closings if supplies get too tight. The closings might well provoke motorists to start topping off their tanks, resulting in long lines at the pump...
...these apprehensions comes the belief by 64% of the sample that "the country is in deep and serious trouble," an opinion shared by only 41% one year...
Walzer says the liberals "didn't think the institution was collapsing or the age of barbarians had begun. It still seemed to us possible to talk to anyone, even with the student radicals with whom we disagreed," he adds. This belief in communication the liberals say is one legacy of the strike. Hoffmann notes, "There are better relationships between administration, faculty and students--more openness, more sense of community." Of student complaints that their input into decision-making is at best token, the liberals say that students, after all, had no input at all ten years ago. "There...
...Sawyer to administer the mills and grant workers and owners wage and price increases. Unhappy with the seizure, Sawyer acted only when assured of the order in writing. Resigning his post after Eisenhower's election, he returned to Ohio and his law practice, continuing to hold firm his belief in the nation's free enterprise system. "The United States, like Atlas, is holding up the world," he once said. "But who holds up Atlas? American business...
...Harvard six years after the Strike, a year after Nixon resigned, and half a year after the last American helicopter took off from the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. It arrived with a certain lack of faith in large institutions' abilities to do good, a certain belief that individuals could change those institutions only slowly and deliberately, and a certain feeling that one has to cover one's own ass. The year of the students' arrival--1975--has been remembered by administrators and undergraduate advisers as one of the peak years of pre-professionalism, the New Mood...