Word: notions
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...authoritative sources of faith in order to determine what is right and wrong. All you have to do is go look at the medical evidence. And as citizens of this land, all you have to go look to are our founding documents and you see that the notion of the wanton taking of innocent human late, from conception to nine months is first and abysmal affront to a moral conscience...
...much, as our attitude towards the election this past year showed. I supported Walter Mondale for president, openly and vocally, as did most other students on campus, if polls conducted last fall are accurate. But much of this support, you got the sense, was predicated on the notion that there was no intellectual basis for backing Reagan. "You voted for Reagan?!" was a phrase said only half in jest most of the time, as if somehow the errant person were a mental midget...
Such is the attitude that colors the predominant campus view about ROTC--scornful condescension--and the more absurd minority position that it is incumbent upon Harvard to "oppose" the military establishment. It is to Harvard's discredit that as an institution it effectively subscribes to this minority notion in maintaining its policy, a result of the 1969 tumult, of nor permitting ROTC on campus. Beyond the benefits the program offers students seeking a way to pay for college and serve their country, what does this policy imply about our adherence to the liberal ideal of tolerating a diversity of political...
...reason for the spin-off spree is that many conglomerates have taken a beating in the stock market. Investors are increasingly disillusioned with the notion that a single management can successfully handle a grab bag of companies. Observes Norman Berg, a professor at Harvard Business School: "In the 1960s and 1970s, the stock market favored growth by acquisition. Now the liquidation value of companies is thought to be greater than the sum of their parts...
Unless one believes that forecasting techniques are somehow regressing, or that forecasters are not as smart as they used to be, one must at least entertain the notion that forecasting itself is suspect in turbulent times. There are many important uncertainties, none of the forecasters has been endowed with a crystal ball, and the resulting forecasts disguise rather than illuminate the critical uncertainties. Facing such circumstances, Royal Dutch/Shell has scrapped the notion of forecasting in favor of scenarios as a basis for evaluating the future. And unlike most other large firms which tried scenario planning, Shell has made it work...