Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veterans of untold small tremors and countless mock drills, Californians have long been convinced they were psychologically ready for a big quake. Last week that comforting belief was demolished. "I'm scared," confesses Sarah Ford, 43, who with her three-year-old daughter found temporary shelter at an Oakland high school. "I need a stress pill. When I walk, I'm like tipping. I'm looking to see if anything moves...
Mikhael-Ashrawi, in turn, criticized Dayan for her belief in the exclusive importance of political involvement, saying it is ineffective for achieving peace and damaging to women's rights...
With defense spending unlikely to increase significantly over the next half- decade, both troop strength and some of those weapons will have to be sacrificed. Neither the Administration nor Congress has suggested what to do. In the meantime, Cheney is proceeding with his own priorities. Because of his belief that there has been only a temporary thaw in relations with the Soviet Union, the Pentagon has barely even begun to assess the U.S.'s real defense needs should the change turn out to be permanent...
...Norman sneeringly refers to the claim stakes as "toilet-paper pipes." The zigzagging roads left by the exploration crews he doesn't like much either. "These terrible Zorro roads," he says, "are everywhere." What riles Van Norman most is the insult to the land. "We grew up with the belief that if you took care of the land, it would take care of you," he sermonizes. "In this world, there is only one crop of land...
...represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that the belief that each individual could pursue a different path to the future is an idea that these officepeople invented, but which lay dormant between their time and ours.) The following then perhaps represents different temples assigned to the different possible futures. They could also represent only metaphysical spaces of belief. Or they...