Word: denialism
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...were running for President (or even dogcatcher), I would have just lost the election. The denial of "eternal progress" and "Fortress America" is that shocking to our psyches...
...prefer the more cynical explanation: demand for "family values" rises as the family, in reality, declines. With divorce routine, when 60% of America's children will live with a single parent before age 18, with inner-city families entirely shattered, our politicians are called upon to provide symbolic denial of facts they cannot change...
Education Secretary Baker and other Conservatives insist that GERBIL's tough provisions can in fact rejuvenate the system. The act's advocates believe tenure denial and early pensioning of redundant older faculty will lop off academic deadwood, thus freeing money to reward universities that focus on the government's priority fields. Specifically, by 1990 the Thatcher government wants 35% more science graduates and 25% more engineers than in 1980. These, say government officials, are the skills that Britain requires to compete in international markets...
...professor, who attended many of themeetings surrounding the Jackson case, said hethought Jackson's denial of tenure was a fairdecision that was the result of a badly-handleddebate...
...judging from the denial and drift last week, the nation seems on the verge of endorsing the premise that the death of 290 civilians warrants only conditional and begrudging apologies. Because the U.S. did not intend for those people to be killed, many Americans seem to be saying, it is thus not at fault that they were. If so, Independence Day Weekend 1988 may be remembered as that moment when Americans declared their independence from the moral consequences of misadventure...