Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason the President dislikes the Democratic approach is its cost: $22 billion over the next five years, including $8 billion in direct grants to the states. Another is the conservative belief that the measure is an unwarranted government intrusion into family decision making. House minority whip Newt - Gingrich denounced the bill for being "essentially against mothers staying at home...
Granted, this trust is important. But the scientific community would be doing itself a favor if it accepted that fraud occurs and dealt with the problem fairly. Instead, the belief in the primacy of trust blinds scientists to its shortcomings...
...belief in witchcraft has existed foran immeasurable time period, perhaps beginningwith ancient shamman's concept of "sympatheticmagic" and holding with modern day concepts ofoccultism and New Age religion. History is rifewith stories and reports of witch-hunts, initiatedand perpetuated by hysterical masses desperated todefeat the all-powerful supernatural. A centralissue to address, then, is the need for people tocontrol these supernatural forces of witchcraft.Did the people they targeted as witches haveunnatural control over their surroundings? In mostcases in colonial America, the accused witches didnot have excessive personal or social power.However, their victims, as well as the hystericalcommunity, perceived them...
CONVENTIONAL wisdom has been known to be wrong, and in this case, the conventional wisdom on the council is deeply flawed. The belief that the council is going to shift its attention from politics to student services assumes what is simply not true: that there is a clear distinction between political issues and service issues...
...protesters, she told Academy voters, "You have stood firm and refused to be intimidated by a small band of Zionist hoodlums who have insulted Jews all over the world in their struggle against fascism and Nazism." Heard out of context, the phrase gave birth to a mistaken belief that Redgrave regarded all Jews as hoodlums...