Word: notions
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...next general election could still be as far as two years off, but the notion of an alliance victory no longer seems farfetched. The latest Market & Opinion Research International poll showed such a Social Democratic-Liberal coalition getting a 41% approval rating. By contrast, Labor trailed with only 31%, and the Conservatives received a mere 25%, the lowest rating registered for any ruling party since Labor hit its nadir during the 1976 monetary crisis...
...Nieman program stipulates that its 11 journalists not write for publication during their years at Harvard, an attempt to "instill the notion that we're not here to write stories or to put out, but to take in and suckle at this great academic breast." Toward that end, Oney plans to attend classes ranging from art and music to psychology and economics. Whether this will leave him time to learn "to write news stories that read like short stories" remains unclear, but Oney is confident. You may see his novel sooner than you think...
...TROUBLE IS, though, that when you mix black with most anything you still get black. In his sorriest chapter, Tsongas tries to defend the notion that free enterprise in most cases will function humanely, and that tapping its power is the key to recovery from malaise. His example is Lowell, which has been revitalized by the influx of electronic firms. The "public and private sectors of Lowell are now engaged in ardent embrace," he says. And so it may be, but the tax breaks that encouraged investment in Lowell meant the plant didn't go up in some other town...
...merest suggestion that the Elaites might have been the ancestors of today's Israelis fell into Middle East politics like a missile. Israeli archaeologists shuddered. The Syrians detected Zionist designs in the notion and persuaded Matthiae and Pettinato to warn other scholars publicly against making ethnic linkages between the 3rd millennium B.C. and the 20th century...
...entire season of publicly being second-guessed by his boss, Michael summoned reporters to complain about Steinbrenner's threats to fire him. A onetime Yankee shortstop, coach, farm-system manager and general manager of the club under Steinbrenner, Michael, 43, persisted in holding to the old-fashioned notion that the manager in the dugout, not the owner in a VIP box, knows best when to call on a relief pitcher. Said Michael: "It's not fair that he criticizes me and threatens to fire me all the time. I'd rather he do it than talk about...