Word: consensus
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...formal action has been taken within the department to approve the proposals, but a general consensus favoring the views expressed in the memorandum led to the implementation plans, Duesenberry said...
...Although this appears to split Britain down the middle, government by consensus is possible and is the rule rather than the exception. The requirements of a mixed economy and consensus in government usually forces a Conservative government in power to move to the left, and forces a Labor government to move to the right...
...reason why this election is unusually bitter is that the consensus has broken down completely...
...first since 1910 to redistribute wealth "upwards" rather than "downwards." It is the first government this century to launch a determined and vicious attack against organized labor, and it is the first government since the Second World War to abandon completely the unwritten law of consensus in British politics...
...exams look fine," another would reply. "How do your exams look?" So it was probably a good idea for Dean Rosovsky to pop over to Lowell House last week and brighten things up by announcing that he was about to revolutionize education. "It is time to reestablish a consensus which will last another 20 years," Rosovsky proclaimed. Later that night. President Bok added his two cents. "Any really strong, persuasive statement of the purposes and aims of undergraduate education as a whole would have enormous influence" on all of American education, he announced...