Word: notionally
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...vulnerable these days. Last month, in a 9-to-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that a university could not refuse to open its tenure files to ) federal investigators when challenged on the grounds of race or sex discrimination. Meanwhile, some universities and politicians are questioning the whole notion of tenure, which at some schools can mean permanent employment after as little as three years on the job. A 1987 survey by the Department of Education found that during the preceding three years, 93% of U.S. colleges and universities had taken some action that "may have had the effect...
...economic reforms. Georgi Arbatov, the country's best-known Americanologist, believes the new President should have veto powers, noting that "we should carefully study the American experience on this." For the present, the President would continue to be elected by the Congress of People's Deputies -- although the notion of direct popular election could be introduced into a new constitution...
...Communist Party ready to endorse the notion of private property? Not in so many words. Moscow party boss Yuri Prokofiyev, who was a member of the committee revising the platform, reported that the debate last week over property was so intense that "it took hours just to write one sentence." Sometimes the differences appeared to be more semantic than real. Instead of "private" property, for example, the document was amended to read property derived from "individual labor." The new easing of restrictions might allow for the emergence of small, privately owned businesses or permit factories to form their own private...
Gorbachev chastised the secession-minded Lithuanians for rejecting the notion of a new Soviet federation out of hand. The party platform follows the basic line worked out at last September's plenum on nationalities. It calls for the present union to be reorganized on the basis of a new voluntary contract between the republics and the central authorities, but leaves open the possibility of "diverse forms of federative ties." Thus the Baltic republics might be allowed to introduce individual clauses into the general contract that would make staying part of the Soviet Union a more attractive proposition...
...muster the unity to do the same. Years of protest and suppression have politicized them as never before and given rise to powerful antiapartheid coalitions. Skillfully led and adequately financed, such organizations could fill South Africa's streets and apply more pressure than the government has yet encountered. The notion that Mandela would soon be freed has focused everyone's attention on negotiations, but the political future of his country may depend in large part on the man and woman in the street...