Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservative government, advocated freedom. Buchanan opposes free trade and wants the government to close our borders. He speaks for a small percentage of the white right that the Republican Party should not worry about losing. Elections are won in the middle, not on the intolerant fringes of political belief...
Strengthening its belief that the Crimson, Howe Cup or not, is the best squash team in the nation, all fifteen players on the team's roster played during the championship match--a rarity in a sport in which teams usually play only nine players...
...True belief led us to the Cuban missile crisis, while the post-Watergate era allows us to divest emotionally from our government so it can do important work on campaign-finance reform. And skepticism without irony is totally unfun. It leads to folk songs...
That said, Paul Romer, professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an expert in economic-growth theory, specifically warns against a "technological determinism"--a belief that technological progress will continue along a fixed trajectory regardless of the choices people make. He predicts that "the Internet will reshape society, but also that society will reshape the Internet through its decisions about taxation, antitrust policy, support for new types of standards organization, protection of privacy and intellectual property, and the regulation of bandwidth connections to the home...
...growing number of U.S. and European companies that have begun issuing annual reports that describe not only their financial performance but also details about their environmental and social or ethical behavior. This so-called triple-bottom-line exercise in corporate citizenship is based on the belief that companies owe stakeholders--customers, employees, activist groups, the public--an annual warts-and-all airing of their environmental and societal records, just like the flow of financial data they must provide to shareholders. But since environmental or ethical misdeeds can lead to profit-hammering headlines, the extra information...