Word: sentimentals
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...contemporary case of Darfur, American politicians didn’t hesitate to use the “g-word.” With the war on terror spreading throughout both Afghanistan and Iraq, anti-Arab sentiment was palpable at the time, and again, the United States had little to lose in labeling the actions of the Arab janjaweed as genocidal before the U.N. could. Yet, again, intervention and even effectual advocacy has been slow to come...
Garcia echoed that sentiment. “I think the elections committee was trying to work as quickly as possible,” he said yesterday. “In the amount of time given, the elections committee was as fair as it could...
...passes, it's no guarantee domestic carmakers will survive. Consumption, the chief engine of economic growth in the U.S., could shrink roughly 1% in 2009 in what could be the worst recession since the 1930s, according to Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan's survey of consumer sentiment. As if Detroit isn't hurting enough, its biggest longtime booster in Washington, Michigan Representative John Dingell, lost his powerful perch as head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a caucus vote on Thursday. For 28 years, Dingell had helped craft every piece of environmental legislation...
...long run. "A negative view of the world is more ingrained here," says Schuster. "People are more prepared to think that this downturn will last." Shirakawa says the mind-set of the Japanese public, which he calls structural pessimism, is, "Oh, it's a recession again" - a sentiment learned from the trials and tribulations faced during the Lost Decade. There is no easy solution to this endemic lack of confidence, he says; it requires different policy solutions than what Western economies require. "We did a lot in terms of capital injection, recapitalization, public investment, tax cuts - everything. We were ahead...
...United States, it is a rare thing to hear calls for the overturning of clear majority opinion. But subjective mass sentiment has progressed too far when it is permitted to so carelessly meddle with the documents on which state and federal government are founded. Given that constitutions are meant to push back against fickle and sometimes bigoted democratic movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect...