Word: notions
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...Yalta conference in 1945, preparing for the final onslaught against Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt and Churchill gave tacit approval to the notion that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" after the defeat of their common enemy. It became more than that. By 1948 Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia had acquired Communist governments, either by the force of Soviet arms or by political subversion...
...transmitted to the U.S. by Algerian intermediaries. Muskie speculated that Khomeini's involvement signaled a "new phase" in the negotiations. Another hopeful sign seemed to lie in the fact that the Iranians were no longer talking in terms of a possible phased release of their captives, a notion the U.S. has flatly rejected...
Prime Minister P.W. Botha has publicly admitted the economic failures in the new black states, and he has apparently given up the notion that the homelands can soon be made truly independent. Consequently, the government is drawing up plans for eight "economic development areas" along the borders between South Africa and the homelands. Pretoria has already established a $133 million fund to foster small businesses in these zones. On paper at least, homeland officials are to share in the decisions that will determine the speed and direction of development...
...feel that we are moving into the most encouraging environment for a free-enterprise economy in a generation or more. It should spur investment and productivity and growth, all of which should be reflected in vigorous stock markets." Says a private economist in Washington: "None of us has any notion of what his economic philosophy is. He's a conservative Republican and believes in lower taxes, but what else...
While Soviet divisions massed along Poland's borders, President Leonid Brezhnev coolly flew off to New Delhi last week to justify an earlier intervention by Moscow's forces. Addressing the Indian Parliament during a four-day state visit, Brezhnev scoffed at the notion that the invasion of Afghanistan a year ago might constitute a menacing precedent for Poland or any other country. "Opponents of detente," he charged, "are making a noise for all the world to hear about a 'Soviet threat' either to Pakistan or to the countries of the Persian Gulf, or God knows...