Word: notions
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Unfortunately, though, the more the two men agree on that notion, the more they will be deluding themselves and each other. The more they will also be cheapening the U.S.-Israeli relationship and misrepresenting its very basis. In 1948 the U.S., led by Harry Truman, decided to midwife the birth of Israel out of the conviction that the Jewish people deserved a state of their own, especially after the horrors they suffered at the hands of the Nazis. The wisdom of the U.S.'s original sponsorship of Israel has been vindicated many times in many ways, by the sturdiness...
...dialogue with myself. What my eyes said was the truth, and what came out of my mouth wasn't." Says Fowles, who is well satisfied with Streep's Sarah: "She was very shy about me. When I appeared on the set, she'd hide. She had some extraordinary notion that I didn't want an American actress. But there's no English actress of her age group who could have done...
...first financial institutions to see the potential in bank credit cards. In 1966 McCoy persuaded giant Bank of America to extend its California-based BankAmericard to nationwide use and to let Banc One handle the mountain of paperwork. At first Bank of America dismissed the notion that an unknown outfit from Ohio's corn belt could act as a clearing house for a national credit card system. But McCoy persisted and eventually got the job. BankAmericard evolved into Visa, and Banc One today is the third largest credit card processor in the U.S. It serves 160 financial institutions...
...first strike and a limited nuclear war: "It is inconceivable to me that any government would wait to see if the incoming warheads were only aimed at silos or were part of an all-out attack. Our government could never exclude the possibility of launch on warning. Besides, the notion of a surgical strike against land-based missiles is a fantasy. One of the more popular scenarios in the U.S. stipulates that to knock out Minuteman, we would have to use 2,000 megatons [the equivalent of 2 billion tons of TNT]. That's about ten tons for every...
Zaleznik was already an experienced teacher, consultant and author of three books when he decided in 1958 to become a psychoanalyst. "I was very taken with the notion of unconscious motivation," he says. "This was the only field addressing itself to the problem." Licensed to practice in 1968, he was certified in 1975 by the American Psychoanalytic Association, a rare distinction...