Word: notion
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When Japanese professor Sadako Ogata arrived in Burma last week as a special envoy of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Saw Maung expressed his contempt for the very notion. "I will not give the kind of rights demanded by the Voice of America," he said in a speech. "I will not give the students the right to stage demonstrations. I won't let the people emulate the incidents in Eastern Europe...
...news to me when I saw it," saidSullivan. "I have not the foggiest notion wherethat came from...
...president of the Harvard-RadcliffeDemocrats, a group which withheld its unanimoussupport for Silber during the campaign, disagreedwith the notion that the B.U. president would begood for the party...
Weiler said that more changes came during the second period, from the early '70s until the mid '80s. During this time, more states accepted the notion that the community's powers extend beyond those spelled out in the original charter. As a result, he said, authority was slowly transferred from the states to the community...
Much of the turmoil felt by parents in the '90s derives from the fact that so many are children of the '50s. Their image of an ideal family comes from TV shows like Father Knows Best; their notion of the ideal mother is the one played by Jane Wyatt: never rattled, always at home. The irony is that this "family of nostalgia," as Madeleine Stoner at the University of Southern California calls it, was largely an aberration that flourished for only a couple of decades after World...