Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to a recent CBS-New York Times poll, 69% of the public still believe that gasoline prices are rising not because there is an energy crisis but merely because the oil companies want to make more money. In a sentiment that is widely shared, Margaret Dadian, vice president of an Illinois sales company, complains: "There is a shortage all right, but not as serious as we are told it is. It is more a question of oil companies' holding back until they can get higher prices. We have Arabs of our own in this country...
...pronounced protectionist sentiment also emerged from the survey. Fifty-seven percent said adding a tax to imported goods to bring them into line with American-made products would help control prices. On the other hand, more than 60% rejected limiting the availability of mortgages as a way to control housing prices, and nearly 90% turned down a tax increase as a way of reducing total demand for goods...
...daughters and their men living foolish lives of romance and sentiment and snobbery. I see...the younger generation, turning from their romance and sentiment and snobbery to money and comfort and hard common sense...
...trying to speak for the entire Faculty, the hasty drafting of legislation on the floor on Faculty meetings--all these combined to convince many Faculty members that the time had come for a greater Faculty voice in the administration, and in running its own affairs. To accomodate this sentiment, the report proposed "a larger administrative role for the Faculty than it has exercised hitherto." The committee recommended establishing a 20-member Faculty Council to act like a Congressional committee or subcommittee--to screen and report on legislation, to oversee educational policy, to foresee committee appointments, and to plan priorities...
...Progressive Labor wing began to stress the importance of a student-community alliance. It was through SDS--which to most students represented the militant opposition to ROTC that was rapidly gaining support on campus--that the tenants' demands became inextricably linked with the more broadly perceived anti-war sentiment. The lines of opposition became more clearly defined as the spring wore...