Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contrary to popular belief, the site of the new U.S. embassy in Moscow is not a swamp. But that is one of the few favorable comments the State Department can make about the controversial facility. According to a department report written last year, the swamp legend resulted from "some drainage problems during excavation" of the site. Still, the new chancery is 30 ft. lower than the old one, and evidence of eavesdropping devices has been found in its walls and structural columns...
Despite Commodore Perry and General MacArthur, the Japanese have rigorously guarded their culture, their minds and their gene pool against foreign influences. Today most of Japan's 120 million people still share an unshakable belief that they are different from, indeed superior to, all other people. Says Kuniko Inoguchi, assistant professor of international relations at Tokyo's Sophia University: "There is a set of subtle but complicated rules that exclude outsiders from a homogeneous village called Japan...
Americans must learn that--contrary, perhaps, to popular belief--we cannot always have everything we want; some things are simply not for sale. Please, let's put human beings on the top of the list. Melanie Berger...
...Reagan brought along his new chief of staff, Howard Baker, who brought along his Leica and was snapping pictures of Education Secretary William Bennett, big, rumpled and charging into the teeth of organized education with the firm belief that more money is not the way to excellence. He pointed out that student scores were declining during the years that education budgets went up the fastest...
These outbursts of racism are merely the most visible. Black students report that indignities are routine: student security passes being checked for blacks but not whites, whites moving away from blacks in lecture halls, racial jokes told openly. Moreover, many blacks hold the angry belief that the colleges have been inattentive to their complaints and slow to move against bigots...