Word: consensus
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...heaviest casualties of the Viet Nam War was trust in institutions, in experts, in majorities and consensus. That deep-dyed skepticism, born in the great credibility gaps of the war and Watergate, is one of the most profoundly significant effects of Viet Nam. Says Dr. Ronald Glasser, a Minneapolis physician who, after his Army service, wrote 365 Days, one of the finest evocations of the war: "The present inflation, Watergate, our lack of belief in expertise, our confusion, all of these things came out of that war. When someone tells me a nuclear power plant has six back-up systems...
...devout Muslim is also expected to observe the Shari'a, which means "the path to follow." Based on the Koran, the deeds and sayings of Muhammad and the consensus of Islamic scholars, the Shari'a is not just a compilation of criminal and civil law, but a complex, all embracing code of ethics, morality and religious duties. It is a sophisticated system of jurisprudence that summarizes 1,400 years of experience and constantly adapts, in subtle ways, to new circumstances...
...newspaper publisher in High River, Alta., Clark has proved himself an adept parliamentary leader in his three years as Conservative chief. Many Canadians, however, worry about his relative inexperience, particularly in foreign affairs. After a somewhat nervous start on the hustings, Clark found his stride, advancing himself as a consensus seeker as opposed to "Mr. Trudeau's campaign of uniting Canada by attacking everyone...
With divestiture essentially ruled out as a way to change corporate policy, the ACSR turned to the question of how to vote shares in Harvard's portfolio, specifically on resolutions calling for the withdrawal of corporations from South Africa. Unable to reach a consensus, the committee recommended evaluating the question of withdrawal on a company-by-company basis...
...psychiatry is trying to change its slightly tarnished image, it is also changing its attitudes. One of its favorite projects of the 1960s was the community mental-health movement. That plan to bring psychiatric services to the deprived went hand in hand with a consensus among psychiatrists that state hospitals should be emptied of all but the most intractable and dangerous hard-core patients. The hospitals were jammed and poorly funded in most states. The idea was compelling: since psychiatric hospitals could presumably do little more than store patients, those who responded to the new antipsychotic medication could be released...