Word: belief
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Police departments’ inability to intervene unless summoned is distinctly at odds with the belief that “early intervention is the best prevention,” common in recent homeless initiatives, says Cambridge City Councillor David P. Maher. Maher is familiar with many local homelessness concerns because of his day job at the Cambridge Family and Children’s Service...
...scans and other medical-imaging techniques, and use them to create scientifically faithful 3-D pictures and animations. Neither dotcom nor biotech, AT scared off some early potential investors. But Tsiaras, who founded the company in 1998 after a career in digital art and photography, clung to his belief that people would pay for images that are both beautiful and accurate...
...September dossier had been doctored by Downing Street, Kelly said, "I had no doubt that the veracity of it was absolute." He repeated that he didn't single out Campbell for criticism. When asked by the Committee if the Campbell accusations had come from him, he said: "My belief is that I am not the main source." In fact, Kelly came out relatively unscathed from his testimony. The M.P.s directed their hostility at his bosses, and never pressed him very hard. No one ever asked him to describe his encounter with Gilligan from start to finish. Yet many...
...little evidence has emerged to back those claims. Both men found themselves referring instead to Saddam's behavior in the 1980s - Blair to Iraq's known uranium purchases from Niger back then, Bush to his gassing of the Kurds and the nuclear program revealed in 1991 - to reinforce their belief that he represented an imminent threat...
Hepburn could handle it, because she never lost that almost comically intense belief in herself. She believed in others too, if they would just work hard. There was a streak of the schoolteacher in her, and a tough grader. One imagines her reading her death notices--all raves--as if they were test papers. "Twaddle!" she would write in the margin. "You can do better...