Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad shift in expenditure from private consumption to investment will require further sacrifices from the entire country. The standard of living in Britain will fall in comparison to the U.S. and western Europe, and few voters will resist the temptation to blame Labour. Despite Wilsons appeal for "consent and consensus" and his support for housing subsidies and the Ombudsman, his popularity will decline...
...preferred Indonesian method for solving complex problems is through musharawah-a long, lung-wearying dialectic that arrives, however belatedly, at consensus. Musharawah was everywhere in Djakarta last week. Hardly a day went by without endless powwows in army headquarters, at Merdeka Palace, and in the steaming streets and squares of the capital...
...seeking to resolve the arguments of its progressive and conservative forces, the Second Vatican Council has frequently pressed into service that invaluable tool of consensus, ambiguity. Last week the bishops approved two major documents that show the strain of compromise and revision: the schema on revelation and the declaration of religious liberty...
...provided Cambridge with honest, though often-times sluggish government. Because there is no dominant political power, showdown issues are often sidestepped. Only when some sort of full or partial consensus has been reached is progress made, and this is admittedly a slow process. By the same token, it guards against excesses and protects the interest of many of the city's minorities--ethnic groups as well as the city's biggest minority, the "university-oriented" community. In a city as diversified as Cambridge, there is a lot to be said for having the broad representation that PR provides...
...will profoundly affect the United States itself. In human costs alone, thousands of American soldiers will be killed. In terms of foreign policy, the chase for "victory" will lend increasingly voice to those who would meet revolution anywhere with military intervention. Domestically, the need for a war consensus could threaten civil liberties, place in doubt the fate of controversial programs for The Great Society, and inflame even further a public opinion which tolerates no concessions to the Communist threat...