Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peter knows the show is a sad commentary on the state of today's teenager. But the Beavis Generation is beyond expressing sentiment. It's powerless to do anything but laugh at itself...
Although the popular sentiment is to see Chamorro finish her six-year term, U.N.O. leaders may conspire to cut short her tenure. If her former allies mount a legislative challenge, Chamorro has little strength to fight back: she now commands the loyalty of only her Cabinet ministers. Yet neither Sandinista nor U.N.O. leaders are clamoring for the job. The truth is that no one wants, or knows how, to govern Nicaragua today...
...lobbied the IWC to allow limited whaling. All three nations argue that the current policy is governed by emotion, not rational science. They contend that a careful harvest of relatively plentiful species like the minke is harmless. Says Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland: "We cannot allow uninformed sentiment to decide on the controlled use of our natural resources...
Congress, however, has decided to ignore public sentiment. On June 15, by a vote of 239 to 190, the House passed a bill doing exactly what most Americans oppose, and the Senate is now debating the bill...
...ought to remove everything from the banks of the rivers and let nature take its course. On the other extreme are folks who urge us to line the river with levees and control the whole thing. The real answer is, there has to be some balance." An unexceptionable sentiment, no doubt -- but where to strike that balance? Should the levees that gave way be rebuilt and made higher? Or should they be left alone, on the assumption that they give people living behind them a false sense of security, and emphasis be shifted to waterproofing buildings and moving them...