Word: mindset
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...their voting power, women should compose far more than 9 percent of the Senate. More importantly, why, when the world has seen Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir, Corazon Aquino and Kim Campbell, has America never even had a serious female candidate for president? Is the answer that the American mindset hearkens back to the ancient conception of a woman as the passive matter and not the active form? Or is 77 years not enough time since gaining suffrage for women to have infiltrated the American political system? Or is it a combination of both...
...size of the United States. Then take Wales and compare. So it's as if the United States were surrounding and threatening Wales. That's why we feel so small and exposed and have to be ready to defend ourselves.'" It is a fair exposition of the Israeli mindset, and it couldn't have a more sympathetic exponent...
...people who've been struggling, even in California. Not many people came back with a clear mindset of how they're going to play," Radtke said. "A lot of people went out there without a clear idea of what they were doing...
Walsh's success-oriented mindset translates into plans for next year's preseason that include games against top Division I schools in Florida...
...crimes of the Nazi state were perhaps more shocking than those of the Confederacy because the Germans regressed from modernity to primitive cruelty. In the 1860s, the South had not yet progressed to a modern mindset. Even a century later, it was painfully obvious that the South had made few steps away from its abject backwardness. Just a generation ago, the South shocked the entire world with its inhuman brutality-footage of redneck goons attacking peaceable black men, women and children with pressurized fire hoses and police dogs was broad-cast to millions...