Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though no cause-and-effect relationship between economic and physical ills ^ can be proved, Japanese medical experts do not consider the notion as farfetched as it sounds. Almost any disease can be exacerbated by tension. Observes Dr. Ryozo Okada, a professor of medicine at Tokyo's Juntendo University: "When faced with a sudden change in the business climate, those who are not capable of dealing with a new situation internalize stress, push themselves beyond limits and die suddenly...
...ground swell of public opinion against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court is understandable ((NATION, July 13)). His reliance on original intent precludes the notion that the Founding Fathers originally intended us to evolve as a people into something better than we were. The nation, and indeed the President's legacy, would be better served by a Justice who views the Constitution as a living part of the present rather than a relic from the past...
Archer's case was bolstered by the testimony and daily presence in court of his attractive wife Mary, 42, a former chemistry professor at Cambridge University and the mother of their two teenage sons. The notion of her husband, a former Oxford University track star, buying the services of a hooker was "preposterous," she said, because "anyone who knows Jeffrey would know that, far from him accosting a prostitute, if one approached him, he would run several miles." Besides, she added, she and her husband "lead a full life...
...have nightmares about the overcrowding in the Houses and complaints of classes that are too large. While increasing the size of the student body may be the most pleasing answer, it certainly is not practical nor does it really address the question. Someone will have to go, and the notion that the children of wealthy Harvard alumni would be the first is farfetched to say the least...
...Novoye myshleniye (new thinking), Mikhail Gorbachev calls this vision of a new international order. The phrase has become a standard entry in Gorbachev's lexicon, along with another mouthful: obshchaya bezopasnost (mutual security). In the world according to Gorbachev, these concepts mean rejecting the basic zero-sum, cold-war notion that any gain for one side requires a loss for the other, that security depends on making rivals insecure. "Less security for the U.S. compared to the Soviet Union would not be in our interest," he says, "since it could lead to mistrust and produce instability...