Word: notional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This notion of sane leadership that can make sate and necessary decisions about the bomb is integral to Bundy's position that complete nuclear disarmament is impossible...
Although Bundy writes several times that arms control agreements are necessary to reduce nuclear danger, he continues to suggest a complete disarmament treaty is unachievable because each country could not be sure if the other was truly complying with the deal. However, it is this very notion of mistrust that perpetuates and adds to present distrust...
...snowy-haired hoofers as Bunny Briggs, Lon Chaney and Ralph Brown. Glover reappears in a breakneck gymnastic number, hopping up and down stairs, while his elders return in slow, sentimental sequences to demonstrate the traditional tap presumption that less can be more. That is in contrast to the basic notion of Black and Blue, which seems to be that more is more. Yet in the understated moments when the stage is all but bare save for a performer at home with his craft, the show attains magic that could satisfy the haut monde and Harlem alike...
...concern about information policy comes inthe context of concern about a vastly expanding,and, in our opinion, over-expanding, notion ofwhat constitutes national security," Spence said."We're urging people to ask questions aboutwhether national security as it was expansivelydefined in the Reagan years is being overused as ajustification for constraints on informationflow...
Paulos swiftly explodes that notion by discussing stock-market scams, batting averages, newspaper psychics, fraudulent medical treatments, election polls and the reasons why blackjack is a better gambler's game than dice. Those who break into a sweat at the mention of calculus or plane geometry can relax. This elegant little survival manual is brief, witty and full of practical applications. Best of all, it has no quiz at the end, and as Paulos generously admits, the "occasional difficult passage can be ignored with impunity...