Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There are several factors that could cause a real estate bubble to burst, but the most important factor, one that is sometimes overlooked, is buyer and seller sentiment-how we feel about what's likely to be the biggest windfall, or biggest purchase, of our lives...
...Supporters of Shari'a argue that the central government's attitude simply reflects public sentiment. A 2006 poll by the Indonesia Survey Institute found that 58% of Indonesians believed adulterers should be stoned, as is mandated by Islamic law, up from 39% five years before. "There's a new feeling in Indonesia that people have been burned by secularism, that it's not working," says Zulkieflimansyah, a former UI student president and a legislator from Indonesia's biggest Islamic political party, the Justice and Welfare Party. "Islam can give them hope, and our mission is to educate Muslims about...
...that sentiment is not as common as it once was. As recently as five years ago, many wealthy Vietnamese officials took pains to disguise their net worth; they rode motorbikes to work and turned assets into gold bars that were hidden in their modest homes. "Society was not in favor of rich people," says Pham Chi Lan, an economist in Hanoi. "They did not dare expose their wealth." Today, BMWs and Mercedes are frequently seen on the streets of Hanoi, and there's a construction boom of luxury villas. The annual publication of a list of the country's richest...
...This sentiment was shared by Tsacoyeanes. “The lawmakers really need to sit down and talk to the teachers,” she said...
...sign of the Communion's desire that Epicopalianism stay in one piece under the world leadership, the primates' communique also urged against litigation over church buildings and property between the Episcopal church and some of its runaway parishes. That is a lovely sentiment. But its premise - that American conservatives and liberals will end up living together in relative harmony under the banner of an Episcopal Church that somehow still responds to the wishes of the Communion - may prove tragically unfounded...