Word: belief
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...argument is further complicated by the belief held by some, including Epps that activism can be defined much more broadly to include all forms of community service...
...missionary families, the Luces lived not among the Chinese but inside walled compounds, alongside other American and English clergy. The contrast between the ordered world of the missionary community and the harsh social and physical landscape outside it reinforced the assumptions driving the missionary project in China: the unquestioned belief in the moral superiority of Christianity and the cultural superiority of America; and the commitment to show the way not just to the love of Christ but also to a modern, scientific social order. The image of America that Luce had as a child was the idealized one his father...
...taken more than three years to plumb that bottom. Long after the 1929 stock-market crash filled Wall Street with eerily silent crowds gaping in stunned apprehension, President Herbert Hoover was still clinging to the deeply held--and widely shared--belief that good old rugged individualism, with just a dash of government help (nothing so radical as a federal dole), would dispel the gathering Depression. But the economy only spiraled lower. By 1933 unemployment had hit 25%; people were foraging in garbage dumps for food; outside almost every large city, shantytowns, known as "Hoovervilles," drew the newly homeless...
...worse than China's. Martial law ended in 1987 only under the intense pressure of a growing opposition movement. For the first forty years, the opposition had to stay underground because of the secret police's extreme vigilance. Thousands of dissidents were imprisoned or executed for voicing their belief in liberty and democracy, and for their criticism of the Nationalist government. Yet, in the ten years since the repeal of martial law, Taiwan has become a full-fledged democracy, with its first legislative elections in 1992 and its first presidential elections in 1996. The vigorous democracy seen in Taiwan today...
Contrary to popular belief, the root of Harvard's relationship problems doesn't lie in the inherent unattractiveness of Harvard men. Studies have shown that the most compatible couples have similar levels of attractiveness. Thus, it shouldn't matter if all the men at Harvard are ugly, since probability indicates that all the women here must be equally repugnant...