Word: defeatists
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...very upset. There is a defeatist attitude around here. We still have a chance, but it is obviously not looking good," said Boston University student Rebecca Morrison...
Indeed, the high-tech proliferation of miniaturized, and in some cases virtually undetectable, eavesdropping devices seems to have promoted a defeatist we'll-have-to-live-with-bugs attitude. "Our security people have always looked upon our buildings as loaded with bugs," explained a former foreign service officer, who dismissed sexual entrapment as just another professional hazard. Such complacency may have contributed to what a high State Department official described as this "first-class mess...
...option of students to demonstrate their opposition by civil disobedience. Instead, police and other officials should take it upon themselves to assure that a speech reaches its proper conclusion, even if such assurances require negotiation with or removal of demonstrators on the scene. Instead of adopting a defensive, defeatist attitude, officials should enforce freedoms of speech and movement with purpose while properly dealing with protesters who use legitimate tactics to make their oppostion known...
...feds off America's back and has slashed and snipped when he wasn't selling wholesale. Similarly, JPK puts forward no vision of a brighter, fairer country led by responsive lawmakers committed to social justice. He instead opts to try to out-technocrat the conservatives, following the same defeatist logic that led Uncle Teddy '54 to support Gramm-Rudman's prescription for automatic budget cuts...
...adjusting to the new policy lies with ourselves. If students can find creative ways to maintain house life the impact of a new policy need not be devastating. A defeatist attitude belies the adulthood we have and doesn't solve the problem. Private parties will no doubt continue, and with a little effort and maturity house life might turn into something more than open keg parties...