Word: consensus
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...problem is that they stopped short of full merger. Instead they exchanged shares in each other's subsidiaries, giving each partner an equal voice-and equal veto-in the operation. Management is by consensus, which often means uneasy compromise reached through a maze of committees. The partners thought that this arrangement would provide economies of scale as well as savings from joint research, diversification of geographical risk and worldwide marketing coordination. But Dunlop Chairman Sir Reay Geddes also warned that "partnership will, in the short term, bring burdens to both...
...members of the Vatican's international Theological Commission used their fourth annual meeting to discuss how theologians could keep their intellectual pluralism within a unified faith. The trend was centrist. The conservatives were less conservative, the liberals less liberal than the year before. The commission's consensus: diversity can be allowed in forms of expression and formulation, but not in basic belief. The church needs a "missionary and pastoral pluralism" that allows for a "translation of the faith for diverse cultures," said Commission Secretary Philippe Delhaye, of Belgium's Louvain University, but it cannot tolerate a "pluralism...
...Nixon does not win by a landslide, a major reason may well be the feeling among voters that he does not deserve it. More voters than ever (85% ) said that Nixon would win; yet a plurality resisted the idea of the overwhelming consensus that Nixon is seeking. Asked if it would be better for people like themselves if Nixon won by a smaller margin or a landslide, the voters responded, 3 to 2, that they preferred a closer election. One reason seems to be that the people prefer Nixon when McGovern is the alternative but have no great fondness...
...anomalies of this campaign that Richard Nixon, with an almost Lyndonesque thirst for "consensus," seems to have slighted those other battles. According to every indicator, the President now stands on the threshold of a personal triumph. The "born loser" of the early 1960s seems within reach of an overwhelming political victory: even millions of Democrats to whom he was once a partisan pariah will be pulling Republican levers. But Nixon, the loyal party man who owed so much to Republican Party workers down the line, now seems unwilling to share that popularity with his colleagues. Largely as a result...
...touches coffee-let alone grass-and confesses that he would be "terrified" to take peyote except under Don Juan's guidance. The phrase "drug culture" is ceaselessly bandied about in America. It is a swollen cliché, and not very descriptive either. Culture, as Castaneda would say, is consensus. Instead we have abundant drug use, which is a different matter...