Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system and deals only with CHINS cases. It is based on the principle that mediation techniques, commonly used in labor-business disputes and in divorce cases, are applicable to status offenders as well. Many experts in mediation disagree with this presumption, arguing that children are inappropriate for mediation. The notion of juvenile mediation is still an embattled concept and has only very recently gained professional legitimacy...
...notion that the Sandinists are a paranoic, oppressive group of communists is simply not true," said Spalter's a Fine Arts major. "I certainly didn't run into anyone who was scared to tell me of his political opposition to the Sandinism regime," he added The junta has said they plan to institute democracy in Nicaragua with the 1985 elections...
...enjoy hurting others, am usually generous with what I own and try to make those around me happy, I abide by most laws and I rarely tell lies. But as for any sort of innate responsibility to sacrifies my own comfort for others. I have often senfled at the notion. What is it that Lawe my fellow man? I have resisted the idea that I should feel guilty for all the things that make my life happier than the lives of a lot of people I am thankful for what I have, that is true. Thankful that I grew...
...month at the University of Chicago for the Bristol-Myers Symposium on Cancer Research. Researchers reeled off findings that the journals have not been able to keep up with. Said Conference Chairman Janet Rowley, a geneticist at the University of Chicago: "Ten years ago, few of us had any notion the progress would be so rapid, even explosive...
...NOTION is almost paradoxical. Dapper deans gather in the stately Harvard Faculty Club to discuss students' most pressing and personal problems, the ones that are triggered by stress, and usually explode into severe depression or rash action, turning priorities, sensibilities, objectives inside out. These experiences, when they befall those close to us, prove so deeply personal that the idea of more than 100 college deans coming from all parts to discuss stress and substance abuse and suicide in a formal conference on "Stress-Related Problems Among College Students" strikes a distasteful chord...