Word: consensus
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...19th century to hold top congressional leadership, never made it to high school and never got over the New Deal tradition of a Congress that takes its cue from the White House. Albert, a Rhodes Scholar and affable companion, is likely to be able better to achieve consensus among all House Democrats, and is expected to take a more activist view of the loyal opposition's role...
...Roman Catholic study group produced a statement indicating substantial agreement on the Eucharist. Later the same year, in an important but little-noticed move, Roman Catholics and Lutherans in the U.S. issued a scholarly, 200-page book on the Eucharist that ended with a remarkable ten-page statement of consensus. Father George H. Tavard, a French-born scholar involved in the Lutheran-Catholic talks, thinks there is already enough consensus among Lutherans and Catholics today for Lutheran orders to be recognized as valid...
...continues to try cases in which no one is physically harmed or harassed, it will be crushed by a heavy volume of work and will continue to lose its consensus, as more and more students, and their close friends, are affected...
Opinion on a controversial University matter has not been so solidify one-sided among the various Harvard constitute????? faculty and Stuart-in two years. This consensus has ??treed the expectations of pro-Campa?? GM students, who await the Corporation decision...
Nixon was trying his best to reconstruct consensus, to show that if he was not embittered by the protest movement, neither was he cowed. He also attempted to display flexibility. He was not about to muzzle anyone, he said, but he counseled his subordinates that "when the action is hot, keep the rhetoric cool." He defended the Cambodia decision anew, but he also added that the troops would be coming out faster than anticipated. While not withdrawing from his tactical rationale for the Cambodian venture, Nixon gave an impression that was very different from the belligerent patriotism with which...