Word: consensus
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...police investigations continued in Italy and Austria, a consensus quickly emerged about the identity of the seven known terrorists, only three of whom survived the airport attacks. The men were apparently agents of Abu Nidal and his Fatah Revolutionary Council, which split in 1974 from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah organization and in recent years has spent about as much time and energy trying to kill P.L.O. leaders and other Arabs as it has devoted to fighting Israel...
...Minister in October as scheduled. Some Likud Cabinet members oppose this solution, which they regard as giving in to Egyptian pressure. But after Peres threatened last week to resign if a decision is not reached soon, it appeared likely that the threat of a government crisis would produce a consensus...
...have to satisfy the public that the direction is right, the policy is right and that therefore the spending priorities are right. While there is the immediate issue of who pays what into the budget, any new thinking has to be preceded by a debate and a new consensus about Europe's performance, how its social model can be sustained, and how we can modernize the model in a way that makes us competitive in the global economy...
...power plant. "Our training has increased, but I don't think it's increased enough to deal with that." A guard at another plant agrees. "We don't have the weapons or training to stop an attack of that magnitude," he says. "Everyone feels that way. It's a consensus of opinion...
...really knows what to expect. There’s a lot of speculation but there’s no consensus even among the speculators as to what exactly will change or what this will mean for our role,” Brown says. “Everyone’s eager to find...