Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...internationalization" of Harvard started in earnest after World War II. Improvements in transportation made Cambridge more accessible toe foreign students and professors. At the same time, there was growing sentiment around the country that America had a crucial role to play in the world' isolationism had become a thing of the past. Harvard's curriculum began to reflect this new attitude as more "international" courses appeared in the catalogue, and already existing offerings took on global dimensions...
Aggravating the problem of discord among NATO members are the growing European anti-nuclear movement and the resulting sentiment that the U.S. should withdraw its forces from Western Europe Rogers said...
...This sentiment is shared by an increasingly large percentage of the American people, who have too recently lived through the agony of adventurous and tragic American foreign policy in Iran. When the Central American Solidarity Association (CASA) called a February 13 emergency demonstration in Boston against increases in military aid over 3000 people responded despite had weather and short notice Similar actions have occurred all over the country. That the Reagan Administration has misjudged the tolerance of the American people for murder and carriage in the name of anti Communism is clear...
...SUCCESS OF THE new outlook rests on a rejection of the simplistic belief that "bigness is badness," a notion that has haunted Americans since populists like William Jennings Bryan and woodrow Wilson fired anti-business sentiment in the early part of the century. Instead, the intellectual underpinnings of Baxter's policies recall the more sophisticated views of Teddy Roosevelt, who argued that the importance of the Northern Securities Case lay not in breaking up the size of the proposed corporation but in showing that "the most powerful men in this country were held to accountability before...
There is little question now that Reagan stands at the head of a diminishing band of believers in the battered supply-side theory, which has produced a mix of budget cutting, reduced taxes, increased defense spending and-the sum of it all-huge, debilitating deficits. Rising Republican sentiment on the Hill is to increase tax revenues while continuing budget restraint and somehow reducing defense spending. Kansas' Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, toured boardrooms, banks and the markets and came back to Washington bearing the same message from Reagan boosters in the world of finance: Hundreds...