Word: consensus
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...says one senior professor, “the feeling is that he’s not building consensus...
Perhaps the one issue on which Summers has built complete consensus is that his approach could not be more different from the formal, delicate, and collegial proceedings characterized by Rudenstine and outgoing Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
Pedersen says she hopes that through this discussion, the Faculty can arrive at some consensus...
...Saddam this time around are almost the inverse of Gulf War I - back then, the American public and Congress were divided over the wisdom of going to war, and building a broad international coalition helped convince the doubters of the war's legitimacy. Now the domestic consensus in support of President Bush's war on terrorism will be used to browbeat reluctant allies into acquiescence. How do you say "Let's roll" in Arabic...
Judging skating is by its very nature a highly subjective exercise, but usually there's a consensus about who gave the best performance. Not so last night at the pairs competition at the Salt Lake Ice Center. The 16,400-strong audience had it right when they booed the results. Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier skated the proverbial performance of their lives - fast, sure, clean and confident - and yet Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze finished ahead of them for gold...