Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to tell whether this is a trend, since incidents of this kind tend to surface far less often than they happen. But part of it also seems to be the mood of the University this year...
...issue is really the same, but we are fooling ourselves into thinking that it has changed, that there is a New Mood on Campus and new conditions which justify it. We are willing to be fooled because the whole truth of it is painful to see--just as it is painful to see Robin Starling's plastic arm and legs...
Insurance companies have responded by jacking up premium costs, which are passed along to patients in the form of higher doctor bills and hospital charges. By January the Argonaut Insurance Co., one of the nation's largest malpractice insurers, put doctors in a fighting mood by drastically raising rates. For example, the average annual premiums for high-risk specialists in California soared from $5,377 to $22,704. But the worst was still to come. This spring Argonaut and other companies sought yet another round of increases in some states and announced plans to dump malpractice coverage entirely...
...mood of self-confidence in the Congress stems from a series of recently enacted reforms aimed at checking the long-term erosion of power on Capitol Hill. The forced resignation of Richard Nixon, moreover, removed an immediate threat to the preservation of the Constitution's checks and balances. Barely two years ago, Nixon was refusing to spend funds that Congress had appropriated for specific programs, thus undercutting both the will of Congress and its power of the purse. He was claiming a vast protection of Executive privilege against disclosure of information on his Administration's decisions, hobbling...
...optimistic Christians came to terms with the secular world; they embraced the belief that God had become incarnate on earth in the person of Jesus Christ, as well as the Jewish idea of a "good" creation. It was the world-hating Gnostics, says Robinson, who "expressed most clearly the mood of defeatism and despair that swept the ancient world...