Word: notions
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Whether the new cooking style is delicious, desirable or even Italian, it has fueled debate as torrid as peperoncino. Italians are proud of their traditional cuisine and are particularly roiled by the notion that some ambitious local chefs are trying to Frenchify their food. The innovators are on the march, however. The Milan-based magazine Italian Wines & Spirits has reported, with some hyperbole, that they "are gradually transforming the laws and principles of the nation's great culinary tradition ... The germs of the nuova cucina spread at the rate of a contagion...
...fails to convince them to abide by the Principles. This recommendation differed from the University's present practice in three respects. It called for the use of the Sullivan Principles as a screen on investments rather than merely as a standard to be applied after purchase. It rejected the notion that standards other than the Sullivan Principles, particularly internal company codes, provided appropriate means for judging corporate behavior in South Africa. And it included fixed time limits on attempts and influencing companies...
Several highly publicized rape cases have reinforced the notion that rape is a crime of terrifying randomness in terms of who does it, who suffers it and where it happens...
...President. Marcos is undergoing the tragedy of longevity in office. If he had pulled off the economic miracle, he could have gone down as one of the great Presidents. Unfortunately, he had no notion of the economic pitfalls, and he overborrowed and relied too much on technocrats. He was never an economist. You can be authoritarian in Asia, provided there is an economic tradeoff...
Ozick can scarcely credit the notion that she is widely regarded as a formidable intellectual. "It seems like a hoax, a vast mistake," she says. Born in New York City in 1928, she was raised in the Pelham Bay section of The Bronx, a middle-class neighborhood. "At P.S. 711 was dumb, cross-eyed, and couldn't do arithmetic; I think the image of what we are when we are little kids is our image for life. Everything went wrong for me then, including the anti-Semitism of the teachers and the kids...