Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart scoffs at the notion that he is a "man of mystery." Says he: "I'm a private man. We have not been social butterflies on the Washington scene. I have not courted the opinion makers in Washington or New York socially, the way you're "supposed to." He has, however, cultivated friends in Hollywood since his McGovernite days. His more glamorous backers include Beatty, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Goldie Hawn and Margaux Hemingway. In Washington he keeps close ties to influential reporters. For about a year before his most recent reconciliation with Lee, he lived...
...Christian Democrats' Duarte is firmly identified with the notion of conciliation toward elements of the F.M.L.N. guerrillas and with such progressive measures as land reform and nationalization of the country's leading industries. His campaign platform promises a new "social contract" between the Salvadoran government and people, including support for collective bargaining, impartial courts and a restructuring of Salvador's brutal security forces...
...setting up a creche. It says that the scene is acceptable, because "We are unable to perceive the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Vicar of Rome, or other powerful religious leaders behind every public acknowledgement of the religious heritage long officially recognized by three constitutional branches of government. Any notion that these symbols pose a real danger of establishment of a state church is far-fetched indeed...
...they're still living in that legend," says Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder, eager to dispel the notion that three straight stellar years will automatically become four...
...Trendy, Statement Maker, and Dress-for-Success-er all belie the expressive significance of fashion, and fall short of possessing genuine style, because they are working from the outside in. It is paradoxical that so many clotheshorses who cherish the notion of fashion as individual "signature" execute forgeries on a regular basis, aping styles without regard to their consonance with personal physique and temperment...