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Word: consensuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loans that have paralyzed the banking system." And although Japanese investors were hopeful, boosting the Nikkei by 1.42 percent Tuesday and bolstering the yen's value against the dollar, the Dow, which at midday languished 50 points in the red, indicated no such optimism. "Japan is a consensus society -- it takes a long time to accomplish anything," says Saporito. "Clinton and Obuchi can have all the summits they want, but the work to be done is in Japan, not New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit of the Walking Wounded | 9/22/1998 | See Source »

Before it is all over, the really hard test won't be whether legal scholars reach some consensus on whether Clinton's conduct met the standard for high crimes and misdemeanors; or whether Republicans would rather a weakened President Clinton serve out his term than an energized President Gore; or whether the commentariat declares that Clinton is a dead man. The hard test is whether in 50 years Americans will look back at 1998 and say that we raised the bar for public office so high that only saints need apply, or that we dropped it so low that moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in "The American people won't stand for this!" Far as I'm concerned, the American people are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves, but I do address, with some confidence, the broad consensus of We in the Boonies over the past eight months: We were more informed than we wanted to be about Mr. Clinton's transgressions. In fact, we are so well informed, we were about to collectively puke, and we sure as hell don't want to hear any more details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chattering Class Should Just Let Go | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...reasons is that there is little consensus today as to what the definition of good citizenship is, or whether college is the place to figure it out. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes said to me, "When I went to college, I felt privileged. I expected to be changed, and they expected to change me. That was the deal, and the whole culture went along with that deal." "The notion of in loco parentis," he said, "was absolute. College was supposed to finish the job my parents had started...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The Disappearing Undergraduate Citizen | 9/17/1998 | See Source »

...until the last minutes before polls closedat 8 p.m. yesterday, there was little consensus onwho would pull ahead...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Capuano Prevails In Eighth District | 9/16/1998 | See Source »

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