Word: consensus
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...questioned just how democratic last week's thriller in Manila had been, Arroyo said Thursday, "I think the bottom line is how the markets accepted it." Indeed, stock prices have climbed 20 percent since Estrada's ouster. But where the business, military, political and clerical elite may have reached consensus on the need to get rid of Estrada, they may be more divided on how to succeed him. The first sign of trouble came earlier this week when Arroyo's defense minister quit over her decision to retain as national security adviser a former military chief who faces corruption charges...
...this Oval Office somewhat smaller and more modestly. The pundits and papers are likely to seize on those mentions of "personal responsibility" as a Clinton kiss-off, but from Bush they also sound like a vision - a vision of a nation led lightly and widely, of a presidency by consensus from a president who never really...
...starting to walk like a municipal duck, and quack like a municipal duck," said Assemblyman Bill Leonard (R-San Bernadino) of the emerging consensus. "And eventually, it becomes a municipal power authority...
Without a consensus on the technical details and on the questions reasonable people should be able to resolve (the population of the U.S., the number of votes cast for each candidate), one can hardly expect a civil process of political debate--for when reasonable people disagree and when reason fails as a means of persuasion, what is left but force? The past election was so painful because there was no comfortable realm of objectivity and unbiased judgment from which one could summon widely acceptable solutions to our disputes...
...Reagan's political director in the 1980s, he salved the egos of Governors and lawmakers. And as senior vice president at Eli Lilly & Co., he transformed the old-line corporate culture amid rapid changes in health-care services, helping fuel a fourfold rise in Lilly's stock. "He builds consensus around the things that aren't peoples' first choice," says Randy Tobias, the firm's chairman emeritus...