Word: belief
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...root of the problem stems from Bush’s belief that November’s election gave him the political capital to pursue an unabashedly far right agenda. The Bush administration’s resulting political arrogance has taken a heavy toll on its own political authority...
Zealous new investors going into a hot field, chasing market momentum and betting huge sums on the belief that this may be a new era: it sounds disquietingly like the late-'90s day traders who went the way of the Pets.com sock puppet. Does the parallel bother Keith Weaver, who is contemplating ditching his job as General Mills operations manager for the real estate biz? Nah. "We might be riding that wave," he says. "But the wave is there. So I'm going to get on it." Weaver's plan is to ride south, into the Florida market. Max Kaiser...
...their secular views on America, such as, say, legalized abortion or gay marriage. But when someone takes the contrary view, all of a sudden he is trying to impose his view on you. And if that contrary view happens to be rooted in Scripture or some kind of religious belief system, the very public advocacy of that view becomes a violation of the U.S. constitutional order...
...about certainty and people who display it? It is not just, as conventional wisdom has it, that liberals think the last election was lost because of a bloc of benighted Evangelicals. It is because we are almost four years from 9/11 and four years of moral certainty, and firm belief is about all that secular liberalism can tolerate...
...million to train one of the 100 or so fighting men who make up each of its three regular, or Sabre, squadrons; they are experts in parachuting, deep-sea diving and waterborne assault, and can handle a variety of complex weapons with deadly skill. They are fit beyond belief, capable of roaming undetected deep behind enemy lines for weeks at time, living off the land while they gather intelligence or conduct guerrilla-style operations...