Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coming out of World War II the United States, led by Harry Truman, reached a consensus shared by both Democrats and Republicans. Rather than forcefully knocking out a Soviet Russia tired and spent by Hitler's Wehrmacht, the U.S. instigated a policy of containment in response to the expansionist foreign policy pursued by the Soviet Union. The mutually exclusive nature of these stances led to the Cold War, which has been fought in Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Nicaragua and Afghanistan...
...strongest consensus in the poll was opposition by 86% to a change in Israeli law "so as to recognize only those conversions performed by Orthodox rabbis." When last fall's election gave neither Likud nor Labor a clear majority, each considered forming a coalition with ultra-Orthodox religious parties. The price would have been high: giving the fanatic religious groups exclusive power over the religious conversion of immigrants to Israel. By implication, the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Jews would have been undermined. Outraged protests from abroad helped torpedo that idea and forced creation of another inaptly named "unity" government...
Should women have to choose between a career and a family? Most business people would probably say the question was settled years ago with a resounding no. And yet beneath the placid corporate consensus on that issue lurks considerable anxiety about the double pressures on working mothers. For many ambitious women, a nagging fear persists that having children may cost them a chance at the top jobs. Despite the new outpouring of corporate benefits for working parents, professional women justifiably suspect that some bosses now categorize their female employees into two classes: mothers and achievers. "The idea is really offensive...
Quint said the experiment was also designed to help form a consensus of student opinion about the college's investments in companies that do business with South Africa...
Clark has pledged to be more moderate as dean, but faculty members believe he will still take an active role in the Law School's ideological battles. On the other hand, outgoing Dean James Vorenberg '49 was seen as a consensus builder, who appealed to Bok when the political turmoil threatened the school's uneasy truce...