Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Place for Everyone. Protectionism is deeply rooted in the Japanese way of doing business. In Japanese industry, every person and every business has a place, which is guarded by elaborate rituals. Businesses reach decisions by an exquisitely deliberate process of consensus seeking. In most companies, reports TIME Correspondent Frank Iwama, this process is symbolized by the long row of printed boxes running down the side of policy papers. Every executive involved must put his "chop" (mark) in a box, signifying his agreement, before any decision can be moved along. The next step is to present the decision...
...Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland emerged with a detailed blueprint for a Nordic Economic Community, dubbed Nordek. The draft agreement must still be ratified by the respective Scandinavian parliaments, and there were still difficult compromises to be worked out -notably on dairy products, meat and fisheries. Even so, the consensus was that surprisingly good progress had been made. Targeted by its drafters to go into operation Jan. 1, 1971, Nordek would unify the Scandinavian economies if the road to Brussels should still be blocked. Or, if membership negotiations were under way, it could serve as their joint bargaining agent with...
...fits the image of a proper, upright, law-abiding citizen of humble background who has succeeded through perseverance. With a lovely wife and two very correct daughters, the whole family represents solid middle-class achievement. Beyond that, I think that in his views he represents the great consensus of the American people on the subjects of the day-law and order, campus disorders, civil rights...
Nixon appears to be trying for a consensus. I think you only obtain a consensus by accident; you can never create it. When it exists for you, you take great advantage of it, as Johnson did for a period of time. But when you're riding a number of horses, you only look good until they split up to go around a tree. L.B.J. came to his tree in Viet...
...there is no real consensus in the barrio. The forces for assimilation are powerful. A young Tucson militant, Salomon Baldenegro, contends: "Our values are just like any Manhattan executive's, but we have a ceiling on our social mobility." While federal programs for bilingual instruction in Mexican-American areas are still inadequate, that kind of approach?if made readily available to all who want it?leaves the choice between separatism and assimilation ultimately to the individual Chicano himself. He learns in his father's tongue, but he also learns in English well enough so that language is no longer...