Word: notions
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...notion that the PLO invited its own destruction and dispersion in order to "roast the Israelis on the spit of world opinion" is, more than anything, extremely humorous; It is also bellied by Sharon's openly stated aims, made public after the war (see the interview with Orion Fallacy from September), most of which are unabashedly aggressive...
...does, which is just what troubled the San Francisco Examiner, among others. In an editorial last month about the expansion of gay rights, the Examiner observed: "The notion that an unmarried relationship is the equivalent of marriage is an attack upon social norms, the destruction of which concerns a great many people in the nation and, we assume, in San Francisco." U.S. law, from its beginnings, has favored the traditional family for its critical role in the nurture of future generations. Even those who oppose discrimination against homosexuals may question the wisdom of giving gay families the same support...
...Nations. The U. N. body approved a preliminary plan for helping Third World and Soviet bloc countries improve their communications and information flow. But while the problem it is aimed is a real one, the path it prescribes for a "new world information order" is so threatening to the notion of press-freedom that the journey hardly seems worthwhile...
...legislative history of the 1981 Reagan tax and budget plan showed, however, reality is a little more complicated. Not only do politicians rarely have a clear notion of the technical features of their own legislation, Grieder claims, but they also are usually powerless against the forces that distort and emasculate even the most comprehensive proposals--inertia, political horse-trading, special interest greed, and just plain human error. In such an "anarchic" milieu, Grieder says, grand conceptions about "the way the world works"--in Stockman's case, supply-side economics--fall by the wayside, and their beliefs lapse into cynical despair...
...Professor Lichty puts it, "The widely accepted notion that Mr. Rather and his rivals each command a vast, devoted nightly following seems farfetched." Together the nightly newscasts on the three networks gather an audience of 50 million. It is a sizable number, even when split three ways, but does not add up to "most Americans." Besides, Lichty says, it is a fickle and fluctuating audience: "Only 1% of all 78.3 million American television households watch Rather as often as four or five nights a week." The Television Information Office disputes these figures, and counters with a Nielsen report that...