Mr Takeshita thrived in such a world of consensus politics, quietly preparing the ground so things could happen by agreed compromise.
There is a general consensus in the world of business that companies must engage in corporate social responsibility in giving back to their communities and their consumers.
FORBES: Gender and Ethics in Advertising: The New CSR Frontier?
If the world can arrive at a consensus on such an architecture -- and maximize the benefits of free flow of private capital without excessive risk -- that would be the best legacy of the Asian crisis.
"The available scientific evidence and expert reviews from leading global health organizations such as the American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, United States Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization reflect a consensus based on published scientific research showing that there is no reason for concern, " Largent's statement said.
CNN: Scientists debate possible cell phone link to brain cancer
World markets are reeling because the consensus in U.S. is turning towards more, not fewer, interest-rate hikes.
Attitudes to the big state have swung to and fro, from the liberal attack on patronage in the 19th century to the embrace of the social-democratic consensus after the second world war to Thatcherite privatisation in the 1980s.
Can one even speak of a Greek attitude toward Alexander, or was the Hellenic world too fragmented and diverse to have a consensus view?
FORBES: Two Great Historians Talk Alexander The Great, Part 4
Since World War II, Germany has had a political consensus restricting arms sales.
For Mohan Rao, it is an example of how even the Cairo consensus fails to take account of the developing world.
The U.S. and other nations won a victory at the summit by guiding the leading global consensus toward measures to boost growth around the world and away from a strict focus on austerity that dominated the international gatherings two years ago.
By finding a hero who rises from shacks and degradation, the film reflects a surprising new consensus that even as slums proliferate around the world at a greater scale than ever before, they could, with the right mix of policies, be the launching pads for upward mobility rather than dead-ends.
The report says that on the evidence the MPs saw no reason to think the scientists dishonest or their science besmirched, or to doubt the consensus among climate scientists that humans are warming the world and will warm it further.
Not surprisingly, The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media refuse to accept what in the real world amounts to definitive new evidence of Iranian intentions, or the consensus outside the left that the NIE was at best misleading.
The term planet has been around since Ancient Greece, but coming to consensus on a precise definition today proved challenging, even for the world's top scientific minds.
We searched for big gaps between the consensus and SmartEstimate among members of the Forbes 2000--the world's largest companies measured by a composite ranking of sales, profits, assets and market value.
When the modern mind shifted away from a designed world to one governed by blind, evolutionary processes, the classical free-market consensus began to erode.
Likewise, the world recognized the need to confront Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait -- a consensus that sent a clear message to all about the cost of aggression.
When Morgan Stanley recalculates the company's rankings in its MSCI Emerging Markets Index, the consensus is that Gazprom, which holds nearly one-third of the world's natural-gas reserves and contributes 25% of Russia's tax receipts, will come out on top of the list, ahead of behemoths like Samsung Electronics .
They begin with an account of the pre-revolutionary consensus, such as it was, in Europe, America and the third world, and then describe how it collapsed, partly under the assault of new thinking, and partly under pressure of experience.
New York: United Nations, that in preparation for the United Nations Financing for Development (FfD) world conference concluded, "there is a genuine need to establish, by international consensus, stable and contractual new sources of multilateral finance, " to wit, international taxes and fees.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: U.S. narrowly avoids "globotaxes" -- this time
Analysis of mentoring schemes around the world, conducted by the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI), found "there is no consensus that mentoring has a significant positive effect on mentees".
While it is true that a European popular consensus disagrees with America over the best way to deal with Iraq, there is clearly an overwhelming European consensus which believes that maintaining the transatlantic collective-security connection is a vital necessity in a dangerous world.
Delegates left Rome without consensus on key issues such as the increased demand for crops to produce biofuels and the impact on world food prices, and there is also no agreement on the lifting of trade barriers and the issue of farm subsidies, officials said.
The missing ingredient, for the moment, is consensus: who among them does the frequently subjective and almost invariably opinionated constellation that makes up the art world trust?
FORBES: Lack Of Authenticating Expert Renders Valuable Artwork Practically Worthless
Building a shared consensus on the appropriate responses to these questions will be the main focus of the International Year and the World Water Day in 2013.
UNESCO: Detailview | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
That is because we may have just seen the end of the free-trade consensus that has been at the core of U.S. international economic policy for both parties since World War II.
应用推荐