Word: belief
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...most part. This market consists primarily of trading the same thing again and again. And you know the old saw about land: They're not making any more of it. Real estate is the only major consumer market in which how much you'll pay someone depends on your belief about how much someone else will pay you. In this market, prices go up when people believe they will continue to go up. To restore confidence would mean restoring belief in the greater fool. That shouldn't be hard. It's built into human nature. This is why another term...
...September 11, 2007, arranged in chronological order, and they get predictably more circumspect as the volume progresses. What each of them shares, however, is the express desire to annihilate the ideology that begat the events of 9/11: namely, Islamism.Ideology, Amis says, “is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality.” Religion, he continues, “is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever.” Islamism is then the ideology of Islam, or rather a belief system with an inadequate basis in a belief system with no basis...
...take into account the other side of testing. Wagner correctly assumes that the growing emphasis on testing is a result of our economic fears that our best jobs will go overseas, but he fails to seriously consider that testing is also being used as a measure of our national belief in equality, our belief that educators should aim to teach all children, no matter their socioeconomic station in life. Although it is clear that the crux of Wagner’s book is about this new achievement gap, his failure to address the structural barriers to education for low-income...
...hardest,” Levitsky said. “But inevitably with a class this big it’s much harder so I’m worried about it.“ Alongside Gov 20, recently-approved general education offerings were also well-received this fall. Culture and Belief 17: “Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games” attracted 171 students, and 116 undergraduates have enrolled in Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 15: “Elements of Rhetoric.” “It’s a little above...
...like Factcheck.org or Politifact.com. And even if voters do hear the refutation of an ad's claims, studies show that may not alter their perceptions created by the original ad. It may well be that the standards for commercial advertising have worked too well, instilling in many viewers the belief that what they hear on television is mostly true. "You hear people say, 'The ads must have some truth to them, or they wouldn't let them on television,' " says Brooks Jackson of Factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. "Truth in advertising...