Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Weicker proclaimed his belief that the federal government should take an active role in promoting and financing higher education at a 1987 congressional hearing, an embattled Secretary of Education William J. Bennett asked in feigned amazement, "You are a Republican?" "Longer than you," Weicker replied...
...Chamberlains' personal drama to show, efficiently and effectively, how mass journalism, ever in search of uncomplicated images, feeds the mass mind's need for simple ideas. It is also savagely critical of expert forensic witnesses in criminal cases. In short, it is a movie relentlessly true to its own belief that what is too quickly grasped may be misunderstood. Streep's performance is in that vein, awesomely tough-minded. No actress has ever played a victim more austerely. Flat-voiced, pinching off every temptation to high drama, she refuses to force this character on us. Instead, she asks...
...plan represents only a tentative proposal, said COHL member and Quincy House Co-Master Rosa D. Shinagel. However, it is a serious attempt to address what many masters have felt is a growing problem of polarization in some houses. That polarization is made worse by students' belief in house stereotypes, masters said...
...mere discussion and statements. After months of debate on the morality of exclusive, all-male clubs on a campus that loudly touts its diversity, most students have made up their minds about whether they believe the clubs should admit women. Those who do, including the council, should demonstrate this belief, literally...
...press flocked to the site, the oil companies, biologists and Eskimos discovered they had unleashed a juggernaut they could not control. The Eskimos quickly abandoned their seasonal hunt for endangered bowhead whales in the belief that it would not look good on network news. The oil companies found themselves in a no-win situation. Lampooned by an Anchorage Daily News cartoon that showed oil-company workers competing in a race for a "Public Relations Cup," the rescuers also faced the possibility of inadvertently killing the whales with kindness. Would the shock of heavy equipment hammering the ice pack panic...