Word: notions
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...idea of a black candidacy surfaced formally last winter, when the "black leadership family," a loosely knit coalition of black politicians, civil rights leaders and academics toyed with the notion of forcing the Democratic Party to allot funds for black voter registration. Soon thereafter, Jackson, a member of the group, started his own registration drive, calling it the Southern Crusade. Speaking in his characteristic evangelist's cadence as he moved around the country, Jackson would thunder to rapt audiences: "There's a freedom train a comin'. But you've got to be registered to ride." Jackson...
...purposes. He has assured Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt that he will not inadvertently aid Reagan by mounting an independent general election bid. "He is very careful, very cautious, very moderate in tone," says an aide to Presidential Candidate Gary Hart. "He's trying to counter the notion that he's crazy." Many black party pros, however, worry that a black candidacy could backfire, siphoning off votes from a liberal such as Mondale and leaving Glenn, a moderate, as the party nominee. "Blacks shouldn't just settle on any Democrat," comments Mickey Leland, a black Texas...
Once the British task force set sail, its commanders had only a hazy notion of what to do when they arrived. They met an unexpectedly formidable enemy: the foul South Atlantic winter, which claimed lives and aircraft and often made fighting impossible. The war's major weapons, as expected, were missiles. Yet some of the most advanced models stumbled: Argentina's air-to-ship Exocets sank the destroyer Sheffield but usually missed their mark, and Britain's ground-to-air Rapiers proved unreliable. In the end, it was not technology that won and lost...
More and more American experts on Japan, however, are challenging the notion that industrial policy is the main force behind the country's economic power. Government assistance has helped some Japanese industries, such as computer chips and machine tools, but has had little impact on many others. Economics Professor Hugh Patrick of Yale points out that the auto and consumer electronics industries, two of Japan's greatest triumphs, have received no special breaks from the government. Says Philip Trezise, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington: "The Japanese have had success in foreign trade because...
...telling point of conflict in the postwar years was the notion of shushin (moral education), which was at the center of the traditional curriculum and taught the value of filial piety, loyalty, nationalism and, above all, fealty to the Emperor. The American overseers saw shushin as part of the country's problem and banned it. In 1957, five years after the occupation ended, shushin was restored, minus its ultranationalist trappings and with the new name of dotoku. Again the aim was to instruct youngsters in the importance of respect for the common good. In a sense, it is what...