Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That only those who are already homeowners can afford to buy a home today has become a truism. Proposition 1-2-3, thus, would merely provide an option to moderate-income tenants that they could never afford to take. Worse, 1-2-3 would provide an incentive to landlords to drive out low-income tenents and rent instead to the wealthy, who can afford to convert apartments to condominiums...
...faire 1980s, no one seems to notice or care that almost all of the U.S.'s leading political consultants are now doing roughly the same thing for fun and profit. Either way, U.S. intervention may undermine the very democratic values the nation so loudly proclaims. Maybe that old American truism should be amended to read "Politics -- and political consultants -- should stop at the water's edge...
...objective, even cynical, review of Black leaders in America is not racism. We would expect the same scrutiny of our white leaders. That many Black leaders are the victims of unfair accusations is a truism. To cry (or fear cries of) racism like some Pavlovian response because one dares to treat Black politicians primarily as office-holders--and secondarily as Blacks--dilutes the word "racist" and undermines attempts for racial objectivitiy in our political debates...
...unevenness of the match has always been obvious, and the outcome has been taken for granted. In a showdown between the rulers and the ruled, the rulers would have their way. After all, it was a well-established truism of the 20th century that a Communist regime is a military regime in disguise. The disguise came off in Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, in Poland in 1981 -- and in China last week...
What leads young men to commit such deeds? It has become a truism to say that rape is an act of violence, not of sex. But experts insist that sexual gratification is a factor in attacks by adolescents. The teen years are ones of intense sexual stirrings and strong aggressive impulses. And many youths are simply socially inept and unable to woo female affection. Frustrated, they take what they want...