Word: notions
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Some U.S. officials are now proposing that COCOM be given the resources and the authority to examine the potential military use of any Western technology before it is sold to the Soviet Union. Western Europe, as Kohl tactfully made known during his brief Washington foray, is leery of that notion. The Chancellor's soul mate in the White House may have other ideas...
Pipes recalls that he agreed with Pusey, but acknowledges that campus sentiment overwhelmingly opposed the President. The fact that the Faculty motion contradicted the law seemed inconceivable to Pipes at the time. "The notion that colleges and universities are a law upto themselves is pernicious and extremely non-democratic," he says...
...pennies on the dollar and now are planning to ask that U.S. courts order the seizure of Chinese assets. U.S. officials have tried to explain to Peking that the principle of separation of powers prevents the Administration from intervening and killing the claim. The Chinese, incredulous at the notion that Washington cannot simply squelch the judgment, have refused U.S. entreaties to contest the ruling in an American federal appeals court...
...current oil glut could hold the seeds of a future shortage. The ailing energy industry, however, may have finally and painfully absorbed an even simpler notion: booms have a way of becoming busts...
Mailer is a member of the postwar generation of writers who still believed in the possibility of the Great American Novel. This notion always flirted with silliness, but its power to spur the ambition of young authors cannot be discounted. The paradox of Mailer's career is that his pursuit of this white whale proved the quest in his case unnecessary. He became a major writer without becoming a major novelist. His instinct to abandon fiction for long periods was, given his talents and temperament, entirely correct. His unique value among his contemporaries proved to be the witness...