Word: notions
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Reich: I think its a very opportune time to sell the notion that if we already have an elaborate industrial policy and that our political economy is already going to generate an elaborate industrial policy, then we must search for ways of creating greater coherence and making it more consistent with our macro objectives...
...Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching last month released a thoughtful study that rejects the notion that public education has failed. After spending a total of 30 months com piling observations of high schools across the nation, the report's author concluded that the best American high schools, which educate 10% to 15% of all students, are the world's finest. Says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation and former U.S. Commissioner of Education under Jimmy Carter: "School is in a very real sense a mirror of its community. Tune and time again, we saw that...
...success of such a doctrine relies ultimately though on Muslims outside the Soviet Union Primakov's notion of progressive Islam permits the Soviets to justify support of religious revolutionaries, hitherto unrecognized and unrecognizable by the USSR. This view of Islams, though can not ensure that Muslim activists will trust the Soviets, nor that they will turn to the USSR for aid. Muslim non-Marxists have long been suspicious of the Soviets, so Moscow must create are receptive Muslim audience abroad before progressive Islam may provide an effective strategy for Soviet infiltration of the Middle East Presumably, then, the next task...
...first time since 1934 that a challenger had won two races. Even with a 3-2 disadvantage, the Aussies were back in the game for keeps. And in Newport the insidious notion began to grow that they might actually win it. "We have got the momentum now," said Australia's Bertrand...
...notion of an Animal Rights Movement can be faintly satirical, especially if it is seen as the reductio ad absurdum of other rights movements. It smacks of a slightly cross-eyed fanaticism that might have amused Dickens, of battle-axes who file class-action suits in behalf of canaries. The movement has its truncheon rhetoric. Its ungainly equivalent of racism and sexism is "speciesism." Just as there is the male chauvinist pig, there presumably must be (so to speak) the human chauvinist...