Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Capitalizing on this belief, the higher education community "redoubled its efforts" to win congressional approval of Administration plans for a 17 percent increase in scientific funds and to defeat Reagan's deep cuts in financial...
Others, forseeing a benevolent administration, eye the nation's Supreme Court in the belief that Bok's legal talents may serve him well beyond Harvard...
...corps of young economists--inspired by the theories of John Maynard Keynes--civil servants and diplomats jumped at the opportunity to work for the Europeans from central offices in Paris and Washington. The excitement over the implementation of the plan reflected the nation's belief at the time "that intelligent action can be immensely helpful and not just muck things up," says Professor of History Charles S. Maier, who is currently working on a history...
Loury's opposition to affirmative action wasprompted by his belief that such policies hadstigmatized him, as his colleagues attributed hisearly tenure to his race and not his ability, theprofessor said...
...during China's Cultural Revolution. Cheng, now 72, whose only crime was being born into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family, was thrown into solitary confinement and ordered by Red Guards to confess to made-up crimes. She refused. Her captors finally released her in the mistaken belief that she was dying of cancer...