Word: notions
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...Washington, Reagan Administration officials voiced approval. Historically, the U.S. has supported the Common Market, as long as backing it does not cause American industry to lose out to subsidized European competition. Underlying this is the notion that fiscal coordination makes Europe a stronger economic entity and thus a stronger trading partner for American business. A Washington official noted that the Administration is working hard to allay European fears of a U.S. tilt toward Asia. He declared, "By and large, our trade relationship with Europe is the most important one we have...
This is the language of moral equivalence. "Two professionals"-each guy just doing his job-cleverly places the two men on the same moral plane. "Caught"-passive victims, both men done to and not doing-neatly removes any notion of guilt or responsibility. "In a cycle"-no beginning and no end-insinuates an indeterminateness in the relationship between the two men: Someone may have started this, but who can tell and what does it matter? (Nor is this the first time Jackson has pressed the cycle image into dubious service. Remember his "cycle of pain" in Lebanon, as if Navy...
...even war itself (World War I). Now, Mr. Carter knew that turning down thermostats and risking lives in combat make disproportionate claims on the citizenry. Indeed, he sought to exploit that disproportion to rally the nation to the unglamorous task of conserving energy. The idea was to make the notion of conserving energy more important. What went unconsidered was what that kind of linguistic maneuver does to the idea of going to war. The problem with summoning a great moral theme in the service of a minor one-the problem with declaring moral equivalence when it does not exist...
Support for that notion seemed to come from photos of Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner that appeared in the West German tabloid Bild Zeitung on the eve of Mitterrand's visit. The newspaper explained that the pictures had been provided by Victor Louis, an English-speaking Soviet journalist who is widely believed to have KGB connections. One photo purports to show Sakharov strolling through a park in Gorky, the city 250 miles east of Moscow to which he has been exiled, on June 15. "Photos don't prove anything," Sakharov's stepdaughter Tatyana Yankelevich declared after...
...outlined his job description for a running mate, and the prime prospects awaited their pilgrimage to North Oaks. Despite the slightly imperious overtones of the summoning, it promises to be an ego trip for the invitees, who will bask in press attention and at least fleetingly enjoy the heady notion that he or she could be tapped for the nation's second-highest office. Walter Mondale, recalling his own trek to Plains, Ga., eight years ago, was following the same selection process that had taken him to the vice presidency and put him in a position to issue...