Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maturing society." Applying that standard with chilly mathematical precision, Scalia calculated that of the 37 states now permitting capital punishment, only twelve prohibit a death sentence for offenders under 18, and three others forbid it for those under 17. "This does not establish the degree of national consensus this Court has previously thought sufficient to label a particular punishment cruel and unusual," he concluded...
...Democratic nations should forge a consensus around the most powerful political idea in the world today: the right of people to freely choose their government," Bhutto said...
Treatment patterns can vary among communities because doctors in different places have different methods. Within a given hospital, doctors tend to consult one another and reach a consensus on how to practice, but that consensus may not be the same in another city. In some areas, for example, the frequency of hysterectomies is three times as high as in other places. As discoveries like these accumulate, statistical evidence begins to raise doubts about the scientific certainty usually associated with medicine...
...bloody denouement of the demonstrations seemed to be the direct result of Deng's attempts to retain the upper hand in a protracted power struggle among China's leaders. The disarray was signaled by the failure in recent weeks of party elders to reach consensus on the formal ouster of party chief Zhao Ziyang, who had lost favor because he sympathized with the student protesters. Within the party rank and file, the hard-liners' attempts to brand Zhao a counterrevolutionary had met with silent resistance and even mutters of bu dui (not correct...
...short term because masters themselves disagreed over how much social engineering was necessary to ensure "diversity," and because the masters' plan was to be unequally applied to all the houses. But when the dean of the College reversed the decision in March, he announced his resolve to forge a consensus on a better plan to enforce diversity this fall. As well he should. Not wanting to live together is not the answer to the problem of pluralism...