Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, those skills as a builder of consensus may have gotten Verba the job in the first place...
...Verba says he approaches the library job in the same way that he looks upon committee work. "Like many big issues at Harvard--particularly issues that involve the faculty and education...most decisions are made by some process of discussion and cooperation and consensus-building," he says...
...have institutionalized our concern about the deficit with the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill and saying basically if certain cuts aren't made other certain dire cuts will take place," says Gradison. "I do think there is a growing consensus that cuts across party lines that the deficit has to be brought down and that compromises have to be made...
...keeping his eye on the ball has finally got Bush "there." Getting to the next step -- re-election in '92 and then to a consensus verdict that he has been an effective President -- is going to require an even more disciplined devotion to competence over ideology. For although Bush has said, "We're coming in to build on the proud accomplishments of the past, ((not)) to correct ((its)) ills," a failure to redress the Reagan era's greatest ill could consign this President to political oblivion. Ironically, given his insistence that the key lesson to be learned from Reagan...
...declaration of international outrage against chemical weapons and a reaffirmation of the Geneva Protocol may at least slow the trend toward poison gases. "There's a general consensus that use of chemical weapons is wrong," says William Burns, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. "I think we want to re-establish that." The U.S. hopes that the Paris meeting will pump momentum into the Conference on Disarmament, a 40-nation effort to write a treaty that would ban the gases outright. As an interim step, several participants want to strengthen the U.N. Secretary-General's authority...