A large majority of Americans, according to this view, believe that government is too big and expensive, and there just aren't that many, outside of the comfortable, well-paid liberal elite, who believe otherwise.
Some companies take the broad view, believing that it's in their interest to have happy, educated employees.
The people of Puerto Asis take a different view, believing that Bogota has forgotten them once again.
In Section II of the paper, I caution against the hard-euro view, believing that the heterogeneity of the membership will tend to pull in the opposite direction.
Those who hold this view believe that capitalist economies are inherently stable, that crises are usually the result of bad policies on the part of the public authorities.
Some planners who take a long view believe that the Midwest's invasive-species problem requires a bold solution: the complete separation, or re-separation, of the Great Lakes from the Mississippi at Chicago.
Many people here, reflecting the state-controlled media's point of view, believe that the demonstrators are acting at the behest of the Dalai Lama, who they say is seeking Tibetan independence, despite his assertions to the contrary.
Sieyès, in Mr. Woloch's view, believed that the solution to French instability was a strong executive, represented by Napoleon, a parliament, and what he called a "third force," a body to mediate between the two of them.
Optimists, among them Georgia's President Edvard Shevardnadze, take a different view, believing that Mr Putin may show signs of seeking an accommodation with various parties in the Caucasus: even including, in due course, the Chechens.Yet the West is taking no chances on Mr Putin's mood, and is trying to build up Georgia and Azerbaijan to withstand the Russian squeeze.
