Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they were beginning to develop a rapport. After these interviews, Sprague concluded that Raoul "does not and did not exist." Ray did insist, however, that he had had some help from unnamed others while he was a fugitive in Canada, Portugal and England after King's death. The notion, however, that Ray was about to reveal sensational conspiracy details to House investigators at the time of his escape last week has no basis in fact...
...notion that public relations is a legitimate CIA function worries many oldtimers. Though the agency has always had a p.r. official of some sort, it did not formally admit so, and he was rarely helpful to the press. But as the CIA was drawn into public controversies, the office became more professional and more open. Now p.r. is expanding to an 18-member staff under Herbert E. Hetu, a retired Navy captain...
...bristles at the suggestion that he should have resigned from the Navy in taking the CIA post. To have done so, he says, "would have been a charade," since an officer can return to active duty later. Apparently in line to become the intelligence czar, he scoffs at the notion that he is merely waiting for the job of Chief of Naval Operations or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to open up. "Ridiculous!" he says. "I can do as much here for the good of the country as I can in any military assignment." And why? Says he: "Thirty years...
...effects. By letting individuals use Laetrile, regardless of its value, the Government would be abrogating its traditional responsibilities to protect the national wellbeing. It could also fan the already widespread public suspicion of contemporary medicine and indeed of scientific expertise generally. However justified such suspicions may occasionally be, the notion of setting lay judgment and emotions against the best advice of science raises disturbing questions. Above all, the benefits of a public test must be weighed against the dangers of false hopes raised and sound treatments ignored...
...goals are vague and difficult to pinpoint but real to most people. Some law writers say such statutes preserve the American family concept. Others suggest that they guarantee continued propagation of the species. Still others say the goal is discouragement of promiscuity, or the adherence to a philosophical-moralistic notion of "correct" conduct. Whatever the underlying social good-and the law has not articulated it well-the courts have generally divined it and upheld the laws...