Word: belief
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...example, my sixteen-year-old daughter won’t buy anything that was made by someone younger than her, but in many cases there is no way to know that.” Smyth, who was a Crimson editorial editor, said that the experiment confirmed his belief that consumers will support good labor standards. “I have believed for a while that there was a market for good working conditions out there, and this was just a case of consumers not having enough information. We supplied the information, and they responded,” Smyth wrote...
...assets to an American buyer. Even in Britain, where the economy has been "Wimbledonized" for years (London has a great tennis tournament, but no Briton ever wins it) and where, says Robert Wade of the London School of Economics, there is "an unusually deeply held belief in the merits of free trade and free investment," there are limits. When Russian gas behemoth Gazprom started stalking the British supplier Centrica, officials let it be known that "any new ownership would face robust scrutiny." Put all those straws in the wind and you've got a flying haystack...
...justify the renovation of Yard dorm basements into space for freshmen social events (located conveniently in dank basements with 8-foot ceilings) and for their own, most favored organizations. One of these favorites is—you guessed it—a women’s center.Contrary to popular belief, the Harvard College women’s center, slated as of now to open in fall 2006, is neither going to be a massive, student center-esque edifice nor a den of Planned Parenthood and sexual experimentation. The women’s center as currently envisioned contains little more than...
...students are less tolerant of ambiguity than the students they taught in the past. "They demand clarity," says Koonz. They want identifiable good guys and bad guys, which she finds problematic in teaching complex topics like Hutu-Tutsi history in Rwanda. She also thinks there are political implications: "Their belief in the simple answer, put together in a visual way, is, I think, dangerous." Koonz thinks this aversion to complexity is directly related to multitasking: "It's as if they have too many windows open on their hard drive. In order to have a taste for sifting through different layers...
...when the opening came, Phillips says, Bush was ensured a cheering section from those elements of the Christian right fascinated by "end times" theology--the belief in Christ's imminent return, and the prospect of Armageddon beginning in the Middle East--popularized in brimstone best sellers like Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins' Left Behind novels. Phillips is convinced that many Americans underestimate the power of that idea among large parts of the electorate. For him, the G.O.P. has become the first religious party in American history, with a predictable effect on the White House policies on global AIDS, the teaching...