Word: consensus
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There are at least two big problems with this approach. One is that such representation tends to make consensus-building far more difficult than it need be. More importantly, from both the theoretical and practical standpoints, such a scheme raises the simple question of where to stop. Having set such a precedent, one is compelled to weigh the legitimacy of any other claimant groups that may arrive on the scene. When other groups (final clubs, athletic teams, commuters, Hungarian-Americans, short people) seek similar status, what criteria do we employ in selecting among them...
...hockey players transfer to other schools. The trustees agreed to make a $250,000 drive to fund the Annenberg program, their top priority. John Eckman, head of trustee development and operations, told the Annenberg Center's director to proceed to plan his schedule for the upcoming season. The general consensus was that the money could be raised...
...whites. Smith will keep his title of Prime Minister, at least for a while, but the present Parliament will be recessed and in theory Smith will be head of the country only when he is chairing the executive council, whose decisions in any case are to be "by consensus...
...very existence. When the country is faced with such a dilemma, Israel will not yield, come what may." Says David Glass of the National Religious Party: "You can't push Israel too hard. When we begin to feel that the world is against us, we unite and find a consensus...
...press is viewed as dominating and monolithic, a part of a power triad with government and industry. Large sections of the population, the majority even--from moral conservatives to radical reformers--feel alienated by a liberal, mildly progressive press which treats them implicitly as variations from some "truthful" consensus. And though the profusion of books is democratic in the extreme, and there is no lack of diverse and freely expressed opinions, this abundance is infected with the same corrupting and mediocre commercial spirit that has sapped the vigor and spiritual freedom of the press...