Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general consensus is that, no matter how ambiguous your feelings on your way to the Pu Pu, you should refrain from stopping in at McDonald's for that just-in-case...
...presidential race between two southerners reflected a new consensus among the generals that rescuing the country from its dolorous economic and political condition demands transferring power to a civilian southerner. Although the current military leader, General Adulsalam Abubakar, pledged a return to democracy after taking power last June, a skeptical electorate may take some convincing - after all, the military simply annulled the results of the last presidential election in 1993. Turnout was below 20 percent in some regions during last weekend's legislative poll -- and even then there were allegations of irregularities. Although Saturday's turnout was far larger, restoring...
McCain's unusual movie night was just one sign of how the Year of Monica is changing campaign 2000. But in the same way that there is no consensus on what the past year was finally about--sex and lies? sexual witch hunts and hypocrisy?--no one is yet sure what its repercussions will be. Watergate was followed by an era of weakened presidential leadership and moralizing politics. But Watergate was about clear abuses of presidential power, not middle-aged sex play and the attendant embarrassments, and it ended with Richard Nixon in pieces on the ground. By comparison, Bill...
...intellectual property laws, musicians won't get paid for their work. And stealing someone's intellectual property is no different from stealing his bicycle, right? "People just view intellectual property differently," says Dan Lavin, research director for IV Associates, an entertainment-industry consulting firm. "Morality is what the community consensus decides is morality. And they're a tribe of cannibals out there." A typical consumer is American University freshman Jaymin Patel. "I've had MP3s for about two years now," he says. "I first learned about them from a hacker friend who told me I'd never have...
Super Sunday scored big with my friends and neighbors anyway. Even without HDTV, the gridiron never looked better--thanks to the jumbo screen and a hidden upgrade that effectively doubles the standard analog screen resolution. The casual consensus: the best TV picture they had ever seen...