Word: consensus
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...living hell out of all but the most maniacal "science marches on" people. The world had already seen enough carnage during the Big One; suddenly this omnipotent man-made monster appeared--a god of death that could vaporize entire cities in one nightmarish burst. Thirty years ago no consensus of feelings about The Bomb existed, but one thing was certain--everyone had a lot of respect, and fear, for nuclear technology. In some ways, that ominous and justifiably paranoid feeling remains in America, but for all practical purposes it has disappeared as nuclear devices--warlike and domestic--become commonplace. America...
...which some see as blank checks from Washington. He seeks more aid along with "sincerity, honesty and friendship of the people of the U.S., whom we highly respect." The Foreign Minister is a courteous man with the round, deliberately ingenuous face of the traditional Afghan rug dealer. But the consensus among Kabul's diplomatic community is that he is naively depending on the guile he used in the past to outmaneuver his opponents in the Afghan political bazaar...
...DRINK. I concurred in the general consensus and elbowed and gouged my way up to the bar in vintage Ed King, clip-'em-on-the-sweep fashion. The bar-tender, a smallish man unaccustomed to such mass displays of joviality, informed me that Scotch and soda was going for $1.90 that night. Ed King, I realized, would run a frugal administration, having already cut back on essential social services. I settled for ginger...
...must be cut not only for business but for everybody, and must be cut not only this year but again and again in the future; so said most of the speakers, echoing a public demand that has become politically irresistible and economically sensible. To a great degree, the new consensus for cutting is the result of inflation. Several years of rising prices have made a tax system that may have once seemed moderate and fair both harsh and inequitable, because it produces illusory gains in incomes, profits and home values that are taxed as heavily as if they were real...
Nonetheless, there is now considerable academic consensus that in large cities a significant linkage exists between white flight and forced busing. The fact that sociologists show signs of catching up with everybody else's common-sense observation should be reassuring. But in the spectrum of hope for improving the education of minorities and for guaranteeing constitutional rights that have been violated for a century, Armor's report is depressing. Finding forced busing counterproductive, at least in inner cities, he offers evaluations of alternative measures...