Word: concensus
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...scores in any population for which the relevant data have been collected. The main facts were already noted by Cyril Burt in 1910, although the precision of the estimates of sources of variance has improved greatly since then. My article in the Atlantic merely stated the scholarly concensus, with some representative findings. I have yet to hear of any significantly contrary evidence...
Although a formal resolution was withheld while the HUC tries to coordinate its effort with the SFAC, Steven J. Kaplan '69, president of the council said that he felt that it had reached a "good concensus...
When this slightly left-of-center group arrived, there was no concensus as to what should be reformed or where the debate should begin. At first the delegates grappled with the philosophy behind involuntary conscription, but finding the discussion too amorphous, they moved on to an examination of the conscription mechanism--ranking, 2-S, and the deferment of conscientious objectors. Here the delegates were on their own turf, debating policies with direct impact on their personal lives -- the draft and its relation to the education industry...
...before the Faculty gets around to discussing the issue at one of its monthly meetings. Dean Ford, who promised backers of last spring's campaign that he would raise the issue, said yesterday that the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) had already discussed the draft, but had reached no concensus on a new policy...
Clearly, the only concensus in the New Wave movement is the emphasis which all New Wave directors place on originality and experimentation. These directors are also quite young; hence their tendency to celebrate youth and spontaneity, And whether they are conscious of the fact or not, a concern with honesty runs throughout their films. They will always rent an apartment in preference to shooting a fake studio interior, and their departures into fiction will always be shown as patently nonsensical rather than strain your credibility...