Word: belief
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...purpose of the designation, countrary to popular belief, is NOT censorship but preservation," according to an ancient document in the library's file on the "ubiquitous X" collection. Legend has it that the collection was started in the 1950s after a sociology professor found that the books on eroticism he needed for his research had been stolen or damaged. So the library set up the closed-stacks collection to make sure that scholars would have access to the research material...
...agree the words are sweet, but there are a number of significant anomalies. There is a lot of dissonance between what they say, which seems to have captured everyone's imagination in the belief that the cold war is over, and what is actually being done. For example, Mikhail Gorbachev talks about withdrawing 10,000 tanks, but Soviet tank production is very high. They're now producing about 3,000 tanks a year -- far better tanks, by the way, than anything they are talking about removing. Consider what just this one indicator means. They say, and I agree after having...
...produce more than their family and feudal overlord consumed. Their impoverished rural existence fostered these attributes of peasant societies: a leveling egalitarianism that prefers to see a neighbor fail in any efforts at improving his lot; envy that a neighbor may be better off, coupled with a belief that he must have cheated; suspicion of anything new, since most changes were for the worst; rampant superstition; and, finally, an unquestioning acceptance of a higher, distant authority, like the "Good Czar" in Russia or his Chinese counterpart, the "Good Emperor...
Bush is "firm in his belief that a new President shouldn't go off half- cocked," says a senior White House aide. "He has repeatedly said, 'I'm not going to make one of those big early-term mistakes like the Bay of Pigs.' " Yet faced with a political upheaval in the Soviet Union and its spillover in Europe, Bush seems almost recklessly timid, unwilling to respond with the imagination and articulation that the situation requires. "He is supposed to lead, but he is not even really trying yet," complains a British diplomat...
...mutual; many West Germans suspect that any war would wreak nuclear devastation on West German territory if the U.S. fired the short-range missiles, rather than risking Soviet retaliation against American cities by launching long-range nukes against targets inside the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, there is a growing belief that some kind of compromise will be found in time to permit a show of unity at a NATO summit meeting in Brussels May 29-30. The "early" negotiations the West Germans want could be put off until next year or even later; Bonn might also agree to some of Nunn...