Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion that American corporations can prompt redirection of these sweeping racist policies through incremental change in extremely unconvincing, in light of everything we know about South. Unlike the American South, Where racism existed in opposition to established constitutional principles, the white Afrikaaner policies of apartheid are part of an entire civil theology and political culture of race separation wherein the hereditary Afrikaaners often refer to themselves as "The White Tribe." Even the token reforms undertaken by the Botha government have drawn vehement criticism within the Nationalist government and have prompted a rightward shift in much of the Afrolaamer electorate...
...British and American warplanes, the building's shell was left standing, and although the interior was badly burned, some original details remained as clues to the materials Semper had used. The acoustics--vivid and unforced, warm and full-bodied--are a particular triumph. The rebuilt Semper Opera disproves the notion that acoustics are still a hit-or-miss proposition: just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results...
...what Stockman had achieved with his astonishing bluntness was to draw dramatic attention to the notion that even the most hallowed of government expenditures deserved stern examination--if Congress had the nerve. Nor were his remarks inconsistent with the philosophy behind the President's budget, with its $51 billion in reductions of outlays for almost every domestic program except Social Security. Many groups who have never felt the full extent of the budget knife complained loudly about the proposed cuts. Congress has already more than hinted to the President that he will not get many of the reductions...
...puzzles them how a complex and little-regulated society can maintain such a high level of production, efficiency and technological innovation. Many are inclined toward the fantastic notion that there must be a secret control center somewhere in the U.S. They continue to chew on Lenin's dogma that bourgeois governments are just the "servants" of monopoly capital. Is that not the secret control center? The great gap in Soviet understanding of U.S. policies and practices sometimes means that even experienced message carriers and advisers of the Politburo like Anatoly Dobrynin, the longtime Ambassador in Washington, do not necessarily convey...
...forth last week reflected Western eagerness to plumb, however erratically, the Kremlin's unfathomable ways. In Washington, Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak reported that Rumanian intelligence officials had passed word to the U.S. that Chernenko, 73, had suffered a stroke. The conservative U.S. journalists also floated the notion, citing sources in the Reagan Administration, that Politburo Member Gorbachev was out of the running for the top Kremlin job. Instead, they reported, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 75, might take over...