Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the conference was not designed to reach a conclusion about the just-completed presidential election, organizers said the advisers arrived at a near consensus on abuses they thought needed to be addressed before the 1992 race begins...
...probably be evident in relations with Capitol Hill. While Reagan happily took on the Democrats, trying to eke out progress via confrontation, Bush prefers conciliation. Some Bush insiders predict a major outreach to congressional leaders almost immediately, an attempt to establish an era of good feelings with a bipartisan consensus on a problem posing a serious threat to the country...
Cutting the budget deficit is a task for America's best and coolest-headed. But even they are pounding the table in frustration, as was the case last week when the bipartisan National Economic Commission met. Congress created the panel last December, hoping it would produce a consensus on deficit-trimming measures (and take the heat off Congress to do so). But the deliberations, hemmed in by untouchable Social Security benefits on one side and antitax sentiment on the other, have taken on a sense of futility...
...formerly chief executive of New York Air. Levine, whom Schmidt chose without consulting the faculty search committee, succeeds economist Burton Malkiel, 56, who resigned last year after strengthening the school's economics program. Schmidt is slashing the popular department of organizational behavior, which teaches the techniques of compromise and consensus building, by declaring that six junior faculty slots will be phased out over the next five years...
...least, there seems to be broad-based consensus that the old Graustein system had major flaws. And that in itself is a major achievement for an 800-plus member faculty that is almost always resistant to change...