Word: notions
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Palestinian leaders in Beirut dismiss any notion that they would try to replace King Hussein, however much he has incurred their enmity. The P.L.O., however, does take the threat of an Israeli invasion seriously, and it has reinforced its strongholds in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese government, meanwhile, is also deeply worried over the threat of a new conflagration on its soil. Lebanon last week sought an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to ask for 1,000 more troops for UNIFIL, the 6,000-member U.N. force stationed in southern Lebanon to help prevent another Middle East...
...following year he fought a war not to acquire a specific sliver of territory but to restore Egypt's self-respect and thereby increase its diplomatic flexibility. Clearly, there had been an intelligence failure. What no one believed?the consumers no more than the producers of intelligence?was the notion of starting an unwinnable war to restore self-respect...
American legal history generally supports the priority of the first principle. Yet, there is also a tradition of rulings on grounds of market control as well as unfair conduct. I wish to emphasize that such a tradition is justified by well-respected research; simplistic notions of "bigness as badness" need not enter into it. Such research further implies that new antitrust legislation could legitimately be based on the notion of market power as distinct from conduct (with adequate previsions for exceptions which are too complex and boring to mention here...
Huntington stakes his book--a profound, superbly constructed argument--on the notion that this Harvard "moderate" was more typical of his generation than the Columbia "radicals." Young Levine's speech, he says, "had precisely caught the spirit of the decade. By and large, the struggles of the 1960s did not involve conflicts between partisans of different principles. What the 1960s did involve was a reaffirmation of traditional American ideals and values." Indeed, Huntington insists, the same is true of all four periods of activism ("creedal passion") in our history--the Revolutionary era, the Jacksonian period, the Progressive...
...even the civil rights movement was unable to even get a grip on the thornier question of economic rights for minorities. Indeed, the most discouraging portion of The Promise of Disharmony deals with the limits to reform--not only in the 60s but throughout our history. Beginning with the notion that there is "considerable repetition from one creedal passion period to another: the favorite causes of one era tend to reappear in the next." Huntington reaches the obvious conclusion...