Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mondale's aides, the euphoria gave way almost immediately to a bout of Hart-induced nightmares. Back in February, the Colorado Senator's stunning upset in the New Hampshire primary (he had risen from a mere 3% following among Democrats nationally just a month earlier) shattered the notion that an invincible Mondale machine would crush all opposition early. After a string of Hart wins in New England, Mondale had doggedly fought his way back with victories in Alabama and Georgia on Super Tuesday I. Then he seized Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, setting up another knockout chance on Super Tuesday...
Reagan raised the East-West issue at nearly every opportunity. In Dublin, he gave a new answer to a longstanding Soviet proposal that the superpowers sign a pledge not to use force to settle international disputes. In the past, the U.S. has dismissed the idea as meaningless, since the notion is already embodied in the Charter of the United Nations. Reagan told the Irish parliament that "if discussions on reaffirming the principle .. . will bring the Soviet Union to negotiate agreements which will give concrete new meaning to that principle, we will gladly enter into such discussions." The President also declared...
India's fight for independence and the American civil rights movement revealed both the power and the potential of non-violent political action. At least that's the notion Gene Sharp is assuming under a new program he set up this year at Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA) to study non-violent means of political struggle...
...negative litany from diplomats and travelers who still maintain thin strands of unofficial contacts. Sometimes he shows mild irritation and gives his head a shake of disbelief while answering his own question: "I keep reading that the Soviets think we are threatening their security." Reagan has rejected that notion, and so has his Secretary of State, George Shultz...
...many bankers are wary of that notion. They argue that a ceiling would encourage debtors to avoid grappling with their economic problems. Others are concerned that a cap would make the Federal Reserve less reluctant to push up U.S. interest rates. Says Citibank Senior Vice President William Rhodes: "Capping has no advantage except that it sounds easy...