Word: notion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants to preserve NATO, with a united Germany as a full member and U.S. troops on its soil; he also wants the Soviet Union to like the idea. In his TIME interview, Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed as "not serious" (a scathing put-down in the lexicon of Soviet diplomacy) the notion that a strengthened NATO will replace a disintegrating Warsaw Pact as the guarantor of the U.S.S.R.'s security...
...notion that people can suffer from "sex addiction" has become one of the most hotly debated theories in psychology. Frequent reports of bizarre sexual excess have spawned competing ideas about what causes the behavior and how to treat it. Last week the controversy erupted anew as nearly 300 sex educators, researchers and clinicians met in Minneapolis for a national conference held to explore why some people are compulsive about...
...notion is afoot that the 1990s will be to saving what the '80s were to debt. Good. We need to save more...
Some disappointed parents have begun to fight back in the courts. The notion of "wrongful adoption" -- which claims that agencies are liable for damages if they place children without fully disclosing their health backgrounds -- is gaining legal recognition. Frank and Jayne Gibbs of Philadelphia are suing two agencies for $6 million, following their adoption of a seven-year-old boy who turned out to be violently disturbed. After the adoption, say the couple, they discovered that he had been horribly abused, including an attempt by his natural mother to cut off his genitals...
...Arbus or Imogen Cunningham? And how can it know in advance what she will produce? It can't, that's how. No one's taste is infallible; some seeds germinate, others do not. And grants are not state commissions. A degree of waste is built into patronage, period. The notion of "cost-effective" culture is a Reaganite fantasy...