Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tela accords also are impossible to implement because no consensus was achieved on whether demobilization could be forced on the Contras...
Since Myrdal, social scientists who study race relations have wrestled with the sometimes tenuous connection between expressed attitudes and personal behavior. As A Common Destiny puts it, "blacks and whites share a substantial consensus, in the abstract, on the broad goal of achieving an integrated and egalitarian society...
...weakened position when it predicted growth of only 2.7% for the year, down from the Reagan Administration's five-month-old projection of 3.5%. The White House forecasters, looking through the rose-colored glasses favored by most Administration economists, calculate a growth rate of 2.6% for 1990, but a consensus of 52 economists surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Indicators holds that the economy will grow at a rate of less than 1.5% during the final half of the year and at about the same sluggish pace in 1990. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank...
Israel's national unity government is an apt reflection of the population it serves: argumentative, divisive and incapable of achieving consensus on how to deal with the Palestinian question. Now the latest attempt at unity is faltering after seven months, as the country's two major parties bump heads over the future course of a peace plan that calls for elections in the occupied territories. Bowing to pressures from hard-liners within his Likud bloc, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir two weeks ago saddled the proposal with conditions that are anathema to the Palestinians. Labor Party leaders responded last week...
Beyond that, notes Dr. Kathleen Nolan of New York's Hastings Center, "there is no consensus on how to talk about frozen embryos." In fact, she observes, the ethical debate is even less focused than the unending rhetorical battle over abortion. Which means, ultimately, that all concerned have a lot of hard thinking to do before legislatures and courts can begin to determine where rights and wrongs begin...