Word: consensus
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...sessions ripe with flattery and promises. The seeds of rivalry were quick to sprout. At the same time, he wooed and won Moslem groups long neglected by the govern ment. All the while, the Bung was practicing the traditional Indonesian musjawarah, a catharsis by conversation that ultimately leads to consensus. Last week Sukarno felt it had been reached...
...computers to produce a symbolic "model" of particular social or economic structures-including whole industries or nations-and then simulate the interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts are queried and re-queried for their forecasts, arriving finally at a near-consensus. Prognosticators concede that the timing and nature of pure inventions or basic breakthroughs-such as the achievement of atomic fission-are not predictable. In many cases, they must still rely on "imaginings...
...formally united. Historically, he pointed out, the Eucharist in the church has been both a symbol of unity in faith already achieved and a means of obtaining that unity. Thus he boldly proposed that the bishops of the two churches begin by celebrating Communion together to help establish "the consensus of faith we seek...
...prevented this bipartisan consensus from succeeding -- Senate President Maurice A. Donahue (D-Holyoke), archfoe of the sales tax and potential gubernatorial candidate in 1966. Donahue views the defeat of the sales tax as a matter of personal honor -- a vote for the tax is a vote for the incumbent Republican Governor and against himself. Appealing to his colleagues' personal loyalty, the powerful legislative leader has twice managed to defeat sales tax proposals that had passed the House. He may well be able to block the Governor's seventh proposal which cleared the House late Friday night...
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith is not now preparing to renounce his UDI government and admit defeat. All mutual trade has been cancelled by Britain, and Rhodesia will be crippled by the embargo on petroleum when her ten weeks' supply runs out. But the consensus of the white populace is not yet for submission. Rumore of growing opposition to the Smith regime and of the formation of shadow cabinets are exaggerated. The Minister of Law and Order has received extra-constitutional powers from Smith to hold anyone suspected of such treason in prison indefinitely without trial. And the Rhodesian government...