Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are, however, reasons to question the notion that the oil producers' surpluses will stop growing soon. Economist Rimmer de Vries, editor of the Morgan Guaranty study, forecasts a 20% average annual rise by volume in imports by OPEC countries. But as the volume of imports grows, such a rate might well become increasingly difficult to sustain, especially for countries with primitive domestic economies. Armaments made up about one-tenth of imports last year. Shipments of war materiel cannot continue to increase -unless the selling nations are willing to take even graver risks that a conflagration will erupt...
...Bobby Kennedy had bugged him all during the time that he was Vice President. He frequently called the CIA "Murder Incorporated" because he believed that the CIA had gone ahead and killed South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem against Kennedy's wishes. He had a further notion that the CIA was somehow linked with the Mafia...
This employee also said that Honeywell executives use many different rationales to justify their creation of these destructive weapons. "People view making the weapons as a military necessity something that simply has to be done. "There is also a prevalent notion that if it is scientifically related work it must be legitimate, that science of any sort, in and of itself, must be a good thing. In addition, racism is an important factor; people think that whatever happens is somehow different because the victims are Orientals...
...Honeywell workers, aware of what the company manufactures, fail to protest. No single employee, even on a high level, is willing to acknowledge that just by performing his job on a day-to-day basis, he is participating in a criminal organization. This is far too conceptual a notion for an individual to come to terms with on his own, lacking the impetus of a Honeywell. And though many demonstrations have taken place and much has been written, no such movement yet exists. There is also the official Honeywell position on anti-personnel weapons, the impact of which inside...
...character-building experience for a soft society. "Our parents lived through it and it made them strong," says Teresa Obendorf, 22, an assistant buyer at Gimbels in Manhattan. "Our generation has had it too easy. This is just what we need to toughen us up." A related notion is that affluence is the villain that has bogged the nation down in mindless consumerism, environmental pollution and foreign adventures like Viet...