Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislators are reacting to grass-roots sentiment that has led 31 states-three short of the number needed-to pass resolutions demanding that a constitutional convention be called to write a balanced-budget amendment. The trouble with such a convention is that it could not be limited to that one issue. For that reason, most congressional supporters of the amendment would rather follow the traditional path of having it passed by two-thirds of the House and the Senate and then ratified by at least 38 states within seven years. Opponents of the amendment had thought, before the President spoke...
...This sentiment, largely ignored in media discussions about Haiti brings out issues of foreign policy that have been consistently ignored, at the cost of thousands of lives
...support, Lakian cites Ronald Reagan. Without endorsing any specific policies. Lakian notes that Reagan ran a state efficiently without any of the government background everyone said was so necessary. But to contradict Lakian's argument, one could begin with the same example. There is now almost completely bipartisan sentiment that Reagan's policies and his politics are flawed. While 67 percent of a governor's time may be allocated to management--duties he could realistically transfer to an experienced executive aide--the other third is the most significant. The imagination required to coordinate a general policy and vision, the necessary...
...their embattled brethren overseas. Jimmy Breslin, also a member in good-standing of the tough-guy school, made such an attempt in World Without End, Amen. Higgins implies that these Irishmen are not running guns just to make money, but he resists any exploration of that rich vein of sentiment and history...
...choose to judge the University plans to slash down the ivy out of misguided budget-cutting or even lack of aesthetic appreciation for greenery. Surely administrators enjoy the sight of thick, flourishing ivy just as much as we do. Moreover, to borrow one official's famous sentiment, if the ivy does vanish, students will have to look at bare wills for only four years; deans will have to look at them for life. No, we are willing to believe that Harvard's leaders would not be taking out their clippers unless the ivy were seriously munching away at Harvard...