Word: notions
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Like many of Gorbachev's ideas, the notion of convening a special conference is traceable to the founder of Russian Communism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In the early days of Soviet power, such extraordinary sessions, held between regular quinquennial party congresses, were convened to deal with emergencies, major and minor. The practice fell into disuse under Joseph Stalin's dictatorship, although it was Stalin who called the last one, in 1941, to rally the party and the country against the German invasion. Gorbachev has revived the practice in hopes that it will give impetus to his reforms and provide him with...
...General Motors, which is four times Chrysler's size. As proposed by Edward Hennessy, chairman of the industrial conglomerate Allied-Signal, the takeover would have given Allied- Signal GM's auto-supply operations and Chrysler the rest. After talking it over with investment bankers and lawyers, Iacocca rejected the notion as too much of a reach. Said he: "I concluded that it might be easier to buy Greece...
Those of us who don't buy into the widespread notion that intrinsic value is proportional to cost expected some relief from this decade's shopping spree after the stock market crashed last October. Perhaps now, we thought, the noveau riche investment bankers who have chased the "finer things in life" so vigorously will be forced to take a break. Maybe the heyday of Robyn Leach's pseudo-documentary Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, as well as all those economically patronizing advertisements, is finally over...
...Office did indeed make a special project of Wigglesworth A-11, four years later, their creation is still functioning smoothly. Listening to the four students' friendly, nostalgic banter, one is struck by the degree to which each feels comfortable with his place within the group. They exemplify the notion that one is only free to be an individual within a community...
Sober admonitions come naturally to a man who dutifully supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and rose to become the party's propaganda chief in 1974. As the economy faltered in the late 1970s, however, Grosz converted to market economics and the notion of democratic reform -- under the party's aegis...