Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mixture of pressure and persuasion can induce the onetime guerrilla fighter to lessen his intransigency and make at least some concessions for the sake of a settlement. The temperamental Sadat will have to make compromises too, of course, but the Egyptians are pinning their hopes on the perhaps illusory belief that Carter can influence Begin to change his course. Warned one of them: "If the U.S. is ever going to use its power to get a Middle East peace, there is no better time...
...city and to the world). His high voice quavered a bit as he chanted the Latin in lilting Gregorian style. Before the blessing, the new Pope made an unusual gesture, granting "to all" who heard the words?either in person or by broadcast?a plenary indulgence. In Catholic belief, all sins, though forgiven, must be atoned for?either here on earth or, after death, in purgatory. For those truly repentant, a plenary indulgence cancels the debt for all past sins...
...since man first ducked into a cave to elude the sabertooth. Ancient Babylonia invented marine insurance, but notoriously litigious Americans have always wanted more than mere insurance. As soon as the automobile became popular, the motoring public began to develop what San Francisco Liability Lawyer Scott Conley calls the belief that "there must be a pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." Now the old litigious spirit has become almost a reflex. Malpractice suits against doctors are epidemic. The volume of damage suits, doubling in some jurisdictions in the past ten to 15 years, has been increasing five...
Your writer detected irony in the fact that Drs. Steptoe and Edwards financed the research that culminated in the birth of the first test-tube baby by doing legal abortions. In fact, the two activities spring from the same basic belief: that parenthood should be a matter of choice...
Harvard hates America. That is the belief of John LeBoutillier, class of '76-and also the title of his book, which will be published in the fall. Harvard, according to LeBoutillier, harbors "a bunch of liberal hypocrites bent on destroying the very system which allows them to live so comfortably." The college, in his view, is turning out well-trained technocrats "woefully short on conscience." Little wonder that LeBoutillier's publisher, Gateway Editions Ltd., sent the book to William Buckley Jr., 52, whose God and Man at Yale, written when he was 24, attacked the faculty biases...