Word: deferring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ANOTHER REASON Bush keeps disagreements under wraps is that they hurt the administration's credibility. The government wants citizens to think that it always pursues the correct policies. It wants to encourage trust, defer ence and uncritical support. Internal dissent might undermine the legitimacy of the regime...
...individual's judgment, ordinarily sound and self-aware, may defer to the collective judgment in a group, where individual responsibility gets diffused, scattered among the many. Says R. Scott Tindale, associate professor of psychology at Chicago's Loyola University: "Under normal circumstances, when you are deciding what to do, you have internal standards to check. When you are in a group setting, when you are less self-focused, you don't check these inner standards. You are more likely to check the standards around you." It takes a strong, poised character to wade against the currents of group will. Those...
...committee persists with its ludicrous shenanigans. Candidates have been instructed not to speak to the press. Committee members defer to the committee spokesperson. Purported spokesperson Charles L. Slichter Jr. '45 does not speak to anybody. (Rumor has it he has not spoken to a Harvard undergraduate in 45 years...
...years, the Democrats retreated to $100 billion. For the moment at least, both parties were hiding from reality in their familiar ideological bunkers: Republicans trying to minimize tax increases, Democrats attempting to protect popular programs. Over the weekend Congress worked toward a short-term budget extension that would briefly defer the reckoning...
...down," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a specialist on Germany at Southampton University. "It's not about Germans pulling on their jackboots and marching into Poland. It's fear about a tendency toward neutralism, and that with its enormous economic power, Germany will assert itself and be less willing to defer to its neighbors...