Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final disturbing facet of the majority opinion is its vague notion that Administration officials (and their family members, too) should not make outside income, even if it's completely legal and conflicts with nothing in their official lives. Deaver is only the latest in a long line of both executive and legislative leaders in recent years, of all ideological stripes, who have made the perfectly reasonable decision that federal office is not financially viable. (One has to wonder about Geraldine Ferraro's present feelings along this line.) Washington is an expensive city; the long-term consequences for our political leadership...
Downstairs, on the slime coated floor of the basement, one could find what was known to the administration...as a horror show. Mike Lempress had chugged his tenth straight beer and had some notion of breaking the all-time Dartmouth record of thirty-three. He failed, but not from want of trying...
...signals an acceptance of great changes. "Healthy societies, like individuals, need periods of rest and < consolidation after periods of strenuous activism and crisis," says Jeffrey Alexander, a sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Many of our social critics are selling the American people short with this notion that the upbeat mood is some kind of pseudo-event engineered by Reagan and the money he spent on commercials...
Many economists harshly criticized the notion of disbanding the CEA. They maintain that among the Government's thousands of economists, the three members of the CEA are the only ones far enough removed from departmental infighting to advise the President objectively. Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the CEA under President Eisenhower, last week sent Reagan a telegram supporting the council. Says he: "I don't know what the Administration is trying to do. I can hardly believe it." But others were less concerned. Said Barry Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who once served...
...buckling under the pull of some nonspecific gravity. A woman who can work up a fail-safe two-line recipe for romantic bliss ("Make him some catfish/ Fry it up in bed") has humor to spare and no further need to flash her credentials for high seriousness. The same notion remains: if the next record comes faster, it ought to be even better...