"They're both scholars, and they share a whole lot of values in that sense, but they have a common view of what a good life is," said Gretchen Helfrich, a Chicago friend.
Although a letter of intent was signed, "it became clear to me at this time that we didn't have a common view for the future," said Rick Milenthal, chief executive at HMS Partners.
Though their talents and personalities are different, Mr. Gates said, "we have a common view at the highest level of what the company needs to do to succeed: hire great people, make big bets and take the long view and be patient where we think there are the greatest opportunities".
For instance, the supporters of the same party might have a common view on economy but totally different in EU policy issues.
A group of people who have a common view of the future can work together to gather assets and to design and create processes that will help attract and satisfy customers in a way that makes the most efficient use of physical resources.
The LGA's chairman Sir Merrick Cockell told the BBC: "It's unusual for local government to be able to absolutely be united and from our side of public services we're saying 'we have a common view and we really want to work with the national government on actually delivering that'.
Compare and contrast that if I were to say, "Let's stick together, decide together to storm the winter palace in Brussels and Frankfurt and so on, take over the institutions of the EU and forge a transnational movement where we all make decisions together, we all plan together, we all come up with a new deal for Europe and we have a common view of these important policies.
I had a common white liberal view in the beginning that we were interlopers or settlers, and at the very least we should question our presence there.
It has been a common view among political philosophers that there exists a special relationship between moral goodness and legitimate authority.
It has become a common view that explicit consent is required in order to use identifiable personal data for research [ 3].
