Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese have reciprocated by portraying him as insensible to the "obvious" importance of friendship with history's most populous nation. Their embarrassing of vice-president candidate George Bush during his 1980 visit with warnings about "two China" policies was an appeal to those who have accepted the notion of China's significance for American policy, including, apparently, the journalists who gave the incident prominent coverage...
...selling the notion of an economy on the rebound, Reagan must be careful not to believe it too blindly himself. The economy is far from cured: it requires a lot more strong medicine. As chief surgeon, Reagan will have to be pragmatic, bipartisan and ready for any contingency. In short, he will have to make good on the reassuring rhetoric of his State of the Union message. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Evan Thomas/Washington...
...rather colossal misunderstanding pervades this campus. Due to a chain of events too intricate to detail here, a widely held notion contends this is exam week. But this week's true identity increasingly demands attention: It is the week of the Super Bowl, America's secular holiday, the single most commonly shared American event, the football game which invariably and understandably fails to match its build...
Machine of the Year! A preposterous but, I guess, an inevitable notion...
...programs for the nation's needy. "My program hasn't hurt anybody," he has maintained "No one has been thrown out in the snow to die." Just last week, he repeatedly pounded his fist on the podium at a news conference and thunderingly accused the press of fostering the notion that reductions in Social Security benefits may be coming soon...