Word: notion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Policy Puzzle. Numbers, numbers, numbers-but is there any safety in them? Nixon's statement went a long way toward dispelling the notion that the U.S. was moving secretly toward a new Viet Nam. But it also made clear that the U.S. has no clear-cut objectives in Laos except, in the President's words, "to protect American lives in Viet Nam and to preserve a precarious but important balance in Laos." An uneasy balance had been maintained from July 1962 until last fall, when Laotian government troops surprised themselves and most observers by pushing the North Vietnamese...
...there's a formula for Room 222, I guess it is to show something that's wrong," says Haynes of the series, "and maybe show how to help it." Out of this notion have come some pertinent and moving moments of television drama. Life within the confines of any school is not all light or dark, and neither is life in Room 222. "If you have a serious situation, you want to give it the full weight it deserves," says Constantine. "But if you play it like Hamlet, you'll be left standing with drama all over...
Accounting is not normally thought of as an exciting subject. But on Wall Street these days, it is the focus of intense interest. The notion has taken root that corporate profit reports are not always what they seem, and investors' suspicions have been nourished by the accounting profession itself, a staid club that is usually a model of gray-flannel decorum...
Fortunately, fewer and fewer Harvard men are drawn to this particular notion. Radcliffe women are not obviously passive in this community-indeed, we are often incredibly active, even while "waiting" for the right man to come along...
Finally, in the mind of one who actually believed it, the happy-matron-career-woman notion promoted by Radcliffe is a dreadful illusion, and one which if taken seriously can keep us not only from developing our own possibilities, but from relating to other women. The contempt and mistrust women have for each other, even when they are "friends," is the counterpart of the excessive awe we feel towards men, and part of what makes us sense that we would be utterly desolate without a man in our lives...