Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general sentiment seems to be that an intense capital investment in the Quad in the near future would work wonders. And the committee may have some leverage in asking for construction work because of the College's current $50 million renovation of the aging Houses which will barely affect the Quad. "There's an opportunity to do something that would make a big difference in life here," Woodland Hastings says directly...
...voters said "yes"--including the Bay State, which logged in with nearly 70 percent of voters in favor of a moratorium. The nine simultaneous referenda together constitute the closest thing to a national referendum in American history, and as such deserve recognition as a very credible barometer of national sentiment on the nuclear issue...
...wins goes to Ronald Reagan. He personally made the election across the nation a referendum on whether this country should "stay the course" on his economic programs. While several GOP candidates, such as Heckler, tried to distance themselves from such policies, they were swept away by the prevailing voter sentiment that, in this time of crisis, there is only Democrat and Republican, and no intermediate shades of gray...
This is probably the most complicated issue on the ballot and popular sentiment does not divide along the traditional lines Certain liberal organizers such as the League of Women Voters as well as some environmental groups and academics involved in medical or biological research--have joined the large power companies in opposing the proposed law. Opponents say that existing safeguards are adequate and some citizens groups object that the law would by pass local decisionmaking. Researchers, despite the exemptions tear that the law will severely restrict their activities. They explain that it would be too costly for individual laboratories...
Skilled, or able to make up in enthusiasm what they lack in seamanship, Buckley and his band have such a good time that they are "melancholy to make their final landfall and see their voyage end." Readers can only share that sentiment as they approach the last page...