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It is a bias that defines success in terms of the status quo and us-them.
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This us-them approach is the one that President Obama skillfully (and finally) took last Thursday and Sunday when he pushed for a big bank fee so that taxpayers got all their money back.
Mark Green: Lessons for Democrats After Coakley -- Stay on Offense 2010
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"Fans are slans," itself the exact type of prejudice and us-them thinking that they fled from the outer world.
Archive 2010-04-01 Steven Barnes 2010
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"Fans are slans," itself the exact type of prejudice and us-them thinking that they fled from the outer world.
Cape Town ladies sing this song, Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah... Steven Barnes 2010
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Just as the United States will need to recognize that the us-them framework is no longer applicable, so will China need to revise how it sees itself in the world.
Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009
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This is why militaries generate "us-them " energy toward "Japs, Nazis, Ragheads, Rebs" or whatever other name substitutes for "human being."
Evil as Disease Steven Barnes 2009
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He again and again slyly salted the wound of us-them opened up by Vietnam and the Sixties culture wars.
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Just as the United States will need to recognize that the us-them framework is no longer applicable, so will China need to revise how it sees itself in the world.
Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009
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The political implications of any movement away from the us-them divide between religion and secularism would be profound.
Bruce Ledewitz: The Future of Secularism in American Politics 2009
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I appreciate some of the very specific info on this thread about Ohio; generalizations about a whole state or type of people are useless, in my opinion, except to perpetuate a black-white, us-them, good guys-bad guys mentality which, folks, will not win us this election.
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