Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overriding sentiment among graduate students is that the body should hold jurisdiction over the entire Harvard community," Crowe said, adding the University has no justification to "single out students...
Then, on the other hand, many of the patrolmen realize they are merely doing their job. "If I were on the other side," said one of the men we talked to, "there's no way you could keep me out of this country." Other officers echoed this sentiment...
...dollar last week to a new postwar low of 147 yen, despite efforts by central bankers to stabilize the currency. Global money traders sent the dollar reeling because they expected that the currency might have to fall further if the U.S. is to slash its trade deficit. But sentiment is rising in Washington that protectionism is preferable to watching the dollar sink ever lower. Though the U.S. and Japan may not yet be engaged in a full-scale trade war, what used to be a heated rivalry between friends has now moved on to a new and potentially perilous phase...
Last week leaflets appeared on the University of Michigan's campus at Ann Arbor. Their message: GET YOUR BLACK ASSES BACK TO AFRICA. Like a poisonous weed, that sentiment has sprouted in various forms at campuses across the U.S. as an upsurge of racism has shocked and embarrassed an array of institutions...
These themes are being stressed by Democratic candidates, including Gary Hart, Bruce Babbitt, Joseph Biden, Richard Gephardt and Jesse Jackson. "When Rhodes scholars are arrested for insider trading, that contributes to this populist sentiment that a privileged class is getting rich at the expense of the rest of the economy," Babbitt says. Like most Democratic candidates, Babbitt is careful to focus his attacks on Wall Street and Big Business, as opposed to entrepreneurial and family businesses...