Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leslie P. Griffin 70, president of Afro, said that the agreement is not final. "We just felt it wouldn't be to our advantage to stay until they called in the cops." Griffin also said that the demonstrators did not discuss whether to demand amnesty for their action. "The consensus was that sometimes you have to take responsibility for what you do." he said...
Last July, Frank Shakespeare, the new director of the U.S. Information Agency, asked USIA officers stationed in Eastern Europe what sort of government they thought the people of those Communist lands would choose, had they a free choice. The overwhelming consensus of the diplomats was Dubček-style socialism. The blond, boyish-looking Shakespeare, 44, only five months on the job, was shocked. "You mean you don't think they'd choose a U.S.-style democracy?" he asked...
...might be possible to reach consensus over a less extreme proposal such as giving Stauder a one-year appointment under the terms he would have had before the University Hall occupation in which he was arrested...
...Consensus is vital because if the department's vote is close. Stauder will have difficulty jumping his second hurdle, the Corporation...
While Thieu and his colleagues congratulated themselves, U.S. military men in Saigon matched up their on-the-spot view of the war with Nixon's assessment, which had filtered through the layers of State Department and White House bureaucracy. The consensus was that the President was generally close to the mark, though optimistic. If the military in Saigon had any reservation about the speech, it concerned the favorable statistics that Nixon cited-which could be reversed in a painfully short time if the Communists once more decided to intensify the conflict...