Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's small army of street grotesques takes off after a taxicab. This particular fellow has no legs. He has to barrel through traffic on his little wheeled platform, propelling himself with his hands and hitching onto the rear bumpers of other vehicles for extra speed. The whole notion for such a sequence would seem like the creation of some furiously cynical screenwriter sneaking a practical joke over on his producer. The credit, however, must go to James Mills, author of the bestselling novel from which this movie has been extracted who actually used this scene as a centerpiece...
...might prompt U.S. intervention in the Middle East and the revelations about the nature of covert CIA meddling in Chile and elsewhere, the Senators might be forgiven for seeing spooks under every bed. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey found the prospect "fraught with danger." Henry Jackson declared that the notion "completely baffled" him and demanded a Senate investigation...
...Adlai Stevenson III plans to introduce in the Senate a bill calling for creation of a National Energy Supply Corp. Its purpose: to operate alongside existing energy firms and offer the public a "yardstick" by which to realistically gauge the industry's prices, profits and overall performance. The notion of a federal oil firm is likely to be given an even stronger push by another bill, also scheduled to be put forward in the Senate this week, by the current front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Washington's Henry M. Jackson. His legislation would create a National...
...authorities, but in the end it became clear that it was not a medical issue. doctors have no professional reason to define a moment of birth--a lexicographer would have as much "expert" authority. In his charge to the jury, McGuire ruled that the jurors must accept the traditional notion of birth as the "emergence of a new individual from inside the mother...
Just as it was impossible for the Warren Commission to conduct a complete investigation of the events in Dallas because it operated with the preconceived notion that Oswald was the assassin, individual researchers are also limited at the outset if they assume, without any substantive documentation, that they are going to uncover a conspiracy which led America down the road to national tragedy...