Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not work toward consensus," says CCA-backed candidate Ed Cyr. "I think it's one of the reasons City Council debate gets so polarized...
With the nonsmoking, jogging, superenergized Presidents we get now, the nation could soon have six or seven healthy retired Chiefs roaming loose looking for things to improve. The consensus for the moment seems to be, as Mudd suggested, not to use them officially but to encourage them to follow their own interests, one hopes with taste and grace. We probably could not change them if we wanted to. It is worth noting that each of the four former Presidents has reverted to form with a vengeance. Reagan is back on the mashed-potato circuit (raised to a world-class level...
Semonoff said it is her role "to try and get a consensus in favor of the legal position correct in each case." She said she hopes Healy's selection of a fifth representative is "speedy" because the process "operates much better" with a full board...
Democratic Reform said it had joined others in demanding the development of a "democratic consensus." The organization said it would become an active opposition political party by next...
After his release from prison, Sisulu said he had learned that "pressure" was the only way to make South Africa change, and that "the struggle in all its aspects" should continue. That remains the consensus among black leaders, who say that protests, boycotts and strikes will go on -- with the full blessing of Nelson Mandela -- and the A.N.C. will work to rebuild its organization inside South Africa. If De Klerk is to get negotiations on track, he will have to offer more concessions to prove that reconciliation rather than image building is his goal...