Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York speech, he said: "We are making a clean break with the New Deal and even the 1960s. We reject the idea that Government knows best across the board, that public planning is inherently superior or more effective than private action. There is now a growing consensus, which I share, that Government intervention in the economy should come as only a last resort...
...switched his vote to keep control of the opinion assignment, a practice the clerks call "phony voting." Burger regularly dismisses such assertions as fables. In fact, his colleagues generally believe that either the Chiefs lapses into indecision are just that, indecision, or he misunderstands or forgets what the consensus of the majority is. Even if the Chiefs motives are occasionally manipulative, the simple fact is that Supreme Court Justices are not readily manipulated...
...about the state of the nation's military strength. Armed with volumes of facts and statistics, they have convinced a growing number of citizens that the U.S. can no longer afford to postpone tough and costly defense decisions if it intends to remain a superpower. As a result, a consensus has been emerging that favors a stronger U.S. military establishment, something that would have seemed impossible only a few years ago. Badly?and unfairly?scarred by the Viet Nam War, the armed services were forced into a period of retrenchment, receiving little popular backing for their expensive needs...
...student members then depend on the faculty members of CUE to defend their case before the Faculty Council, but in the past the professors have rarely relished the task. Because the CUE rarely takes a vote--preferring to "reach a consensus," as Bowersock calls it--and because many of the faculty members remain silent during much of the CUE discussions, students often have no idea what faculty members think of their ideas. "We figure if they are quiet," Henderson deducts "they (the professors) don't object...
...details are ignored, postponed or handled by subordinates. Personality clashes are reduced; too much is usually at stake for normal jealousies to operate. In a crisis only the strongest strive for responsibility; the rest are intimidated by the knowledge that failure will demand a scapegoat. Many hide behind a consensus that they will be reluctant to shape; others concentrate on registering objections that will provide alibis after the event. The few prepared to grapple with circumstances are usually undisturbed in the eye of a hurricane. All around them there is commotion; they themselves operate in solitude i a great stillness...