Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real issue in this election is not the proper role of religion in government but the proper role of government in religion [NATION, Sept. 10]. The notion of separation of church and state put forward by Thomas Jefferson appears in the Constitution only in reference to forbidding government involvement in religion, not vice versa...
...thing that could conceivably change this fairly cautious approach would be a specific overture of some kind from Gromyko. U.S. officials candidly admitted that they did not have the slightest notion of what, if any, initiatives the Soviets were bringing with them. It is possible that Gromyko could table some specific proposals in his session with Shultz that would cause the U.S. side to regroup hastily. Said a senior State Department official, hoping that this would happen: "Whether it makes sense to talk specifics depends on whether the Soviets are prepared really to re-engage on arms control...
...case, notes Benjamin Kaplan, a retired Massachusetts judge and a professor of Law emeritus, "Any notion that a Law Review article could over-whehn a judge is absurd...
...president correctly points out that no one has the right to decide for others what is appropriate for public debate or what has already been so thrashed out that nobody needs to hear about it anymore. Further, he has no truck for the mistaken notion that somehow hecklers have an equivalent right to protection in their effort to drown out an unpopular speaker...
...convincing win on the road by the two-time defending Ivy League champion Quakers only reinforced the notion that Penn is the early favorite to wrest its third staright league crown...