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Leverett and Quincy House representatives objected to interior construction of cinder block or raw concrete and, urged that the new House have finished interior walls. There was also considerable discussion of the relative merits of long corridors and small entries, but no clear consensus was expressed...
...disgruntled is ex-Employee Hughes that, in his summing up of the Eisenhower Administration, he invokes a unanimity that excludes scores of millions of Americans: "By almost equally unanimous consensus of the national community of intellectuals and critics-journalists and academicians, pundits and prophets-his conduct of the presidency was unskillful and his definition of it inaccurate...
...almost continuous session until the sifting is completed. The Committee's deliberations begin at 10 a.m. and continue until 6 p.m.; often the group will adjourn for dinner and then return to sit until midnight. Like most committees the FCAS usually makes a decision by reaching some kind of consensus. Heated discussions on the merits of a candidate are not uncommon, however, and if the Committee is split the decision is made by a formal vote...
...although Prime Minister John Diefenbaker is given less chance to squeak through again, there seems to be no national consensus, or leadership, capable of effectively uniting the western farmers, Ontario factory workers, underemployed Nova Scotia coal miners, or Quebec's restless French Canadians, who seem more and more anxious to move into a separate world of their own. In Vancouver's Executive Club last week, a member complained: "Yesterday, for the first time in my life, my wife asked me how to vote in the election." He paused. "And you know something? For the first time...
There was indeed at one recent time a consensus favoring a tax cut, but, judging by reactions registered on Capitol Hill, it has been drowned by waves of antagonism-stirred up largely by the Administration. The President has sent to Congress a lardy budget showing a deficit of $11.9 billion, thereby repelling members of Congress and plain citizens who are reluctant to see the deficit enlarged by tax reduction. The President's tax package itself has alienated a lot of potential support because it is flawed by political bias, provides relatively little net relief for middle-income taxpayers...