Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Sentiment on the nine-member City Council has been building against the Water Department since January, when the city sent out letters saying they had recorded high levels of trihalomethanes--chemicals known to cause cancer in laboratory animals--from July 1988 to December 1989. During that period, the department failed to notify water users of the problem, as required...
...dueling rhetoric suggests, Chamorro's first challenge will be to establish her authority. Given the failure of most pollsters to chart voter sentiment accurately -- Ortega was so confident of victory that just two days before the balloting he said, "There is not even a hypothetical possibility that the ((opposition)) could win" -- it is difficult to know precisely why Chamorro triumphed. Possibly the vote was an endorsement of her calls to abolish the military draft, establish peace and allow private enterprise to flourish -- the mainstay of her ill-conceived, disorganized campaign. It seems just as likely, however, that the vote...
...students in Computer Science 124, "Data Structures and Algorithms," Bamberg says, requested traditional teaching. "There was strong sentiment for my just getting up there and lecturing," he says...
...know the general sentiment of the Faculty until it comes up for discussion... but I'm not aware of any reason why it would be defeated if it's carefully thought through, as I'm sure it would be," Bok said...
ORTEGA'S meeting with Chamorro was a good public relations stunt, an ostensible sign of national reconciliation. But it could not obscure the Sandinistas' prior contempt for the opposition and reluctance to listen to popular sentiment...