Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critical consensus on his new book, at least, seems to suggest that his new direction is largely welcome...
...critical consensus on his new book, at least, seems to suggest that his new direction is largely welcome...
Since the war's start, allied unity has been more important than lethality. Unless NATO reaches a credible consensus to gather a serious invasion force, the Tower of Babel talk won't do much to move Milosevic. Threatening to dispatch troops at the start might have given him pause, or at least forced some of his soldiers to stay home and protect Serbian borders instead of depopulating Kosovo. Had a relatively small ground force been deployed by now, it could have made the air war more lethal by spotting targets and flushing Serbian armor from hiding. But now the noisy...
Linda Prieto said the faculty and students in her group were in consensus that the GRE standardized tests should not be a part of the application process...
...secretary general that his own staff despised him," says Dowell. "His imperiousness had alienated them to the point that they were constantly leaking damaging information to the media." Boutros-Ghali's attack, though, points to a shift in the Clinton administration away from its initial emphasis on building consensus in multilateral forums such as the U.N. "Instead of trying to win international support for U.S. policy, Washington began to simply announce it on a take-it-or-leave-it basis," says Dowell. "That has also led to a problem where the State Department tends to regard the U.N. secretary general...