Word: consensus
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...Maybe the kid next to you in the baseball jacket complains to you after class and slowly, you notice, class isn't as great as you thought. Maybe your whole tutorial is fascinated by Celtic poetry and you find yourself looking forward weekly meetings despite yourself. Where does the consensus come from? It's all in the details: an off-hand remark that someone makes, a perfect characterization, the collective curve-setting on the midterm. Slowly, the class opinion converges to a mean...
There are cases all around us of individuals speaking for groups and of groups coming to the consensus of individuals. Consider the stand the E.U. is taking against Austria and the dominos that have fallen since the U.S. ambassador withdrew. I don't mean to hold argumentative, individualist logic on a high plane above consensus. Intuition can be a great help in situations where the facts are dubious...
...Nazi and nor are his supporters," says Purvis. "But he isa demagogue whose xenophobic and anti-immigration views are considered dangerous in Europe. Haider opposes plans to expand the European Union into Eastern Europe, and that could create a major problem for the E.U. since they operate by consensus." The People's party, for its part, has affirmed that it remains committed to E.U. enlargement, but European governments will keep a close watch on Austria's policies on Europe and immigration. Unless Austria actually breaks with E.U. policy, however, isolation of Vienna is unlikely to go beyond such symbolic gestures...
...Students overwhelmingly support raising spending for education, but barely reach a consensus to raise taxes on the rich--a full 29 percent oppose taxing the rich and another 24 percent have mixed opinions on the issue...
...space is a rare commodity at Harvard, and there is little consensus about where the women's center would be located. Kate B. Clancy '01 suggests the middle of the Yard...