Word: consensus
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...issues debated are "no longer central to our fate," he continued, and the emergence of critical new questions in the field of foreign policy requires a new consensus of political thought and probably a new political alignment...
...domestic political consensus," he said, is essentially "an agreement on the 'Welfare State.'" He maintained that both parties agree on the "first of the underlying premises of the New Deal: that the federal government is responsible for certain minimum standards for all Americans...
Bowles suggested that the explanation for the evasion of the real issues by both parties lies in American political history, which he divided into three great cycles of federal consensus...
Weepings and wailings and gnashings of teeth recently rent the air as coaches and other athletic officals lamented this country's poor performance in the Winter Olympics. The consensus around the stadia and other such national focal points seems to be that a mediocre bobsled team indicates a mediocre country. Thus, by failing to turn out as large a number of winners as the Russians, the United States automatically lost its position as a world leader...
...doctors say O.K. I'm absolutely confident." In any event, the Ikemen feel they must get the bandwagon rolling through the period of "vacuum" between the present and the time that the doctors turn in their final report, before the President is able to announce his decision. The consensus of the Ikemen as of now: "We want nothing to stand in the way of his deciding to run again except his own decision on the condition of his health...