Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held in 1988, when his seven-year term expires. But no obvious successor stands in line and Chun is unlikely to let opposition leaders return to the fray. Some Western diplomats suspect, as a result, that he will attempt to stay in office. Reagan seemed to discourage that notion, however, when he praised Chun's plan "for a constitutional transfer of power...
Zhou's unsettling thesis led to a series of official rebukes. Earlier this month, People's Daily vilified the "depressed" notion of "alienation in socialism" and complained of "some people who go so far as to take the socialist system itself for alienation." Then the paper began running a stream of self-criticisms, in which Zhou repented of "betraying the party and the people's trust." Finally, the two editors who had countenanced Zhou's original article were ousted, even though their antileftist sentiments had not long ago been embraced by Deng himself...
Critics, particularly in Europe, began to see Wines as the only American architect to cast a plague on both houses of contemporary design, those of orthodox modernism and eclectic postmodernism. But the notion lingered that the inventive mockery of his designs for Best Products was relatively easy on a shopping strip, where anything goes. How would SITE perform in the city...
Jesuit Father William Sullivan, president of Seattle University, sees the archdiocese as a paradigm of a nationwide tension between liberals and conservatives. On one side are people like Hunthausen, "a man of Vatican II" who favors the "democratic mentality." On the other stands "the older notion of top-down authority" reinforced by the Pope...
...ORDER TO insure stability the U.S. has habitually answered Central American uprisings with force. Such was the notion behind Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick approach to the regions' troubles. It was Roosevelt who began the practice to dispatching the marines for any misbehavior south of the border. When, during the Depression, this became too costly a procedure, the U.S. began training local armies, such as Nicaragua's infamous National Guard, to do its police work...