Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race, Martinez must now overcome a primary challenge from pro-choice Republican State Senator Marlene Woodson-Howard. Anxious not to revive old charges that he is an indecisive leader, Martinez has vowed to reintroduce the defeated bills when the legislature meets in regular session next April. He dismisses the notion that he may have suffered politically. "When you're functioning out of conviction," he says, "you can't think of politics...
...Take the notion of being innocent until you're proven guilty. When grandstanding U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani went after partners in the Princeton/Newport investment firm on charges of securities fraud, he used RICO to freeze all the assets of the company. Soon after, they were out of business. All this before the defendants had had their day in court...
Player of the Week: At least one Ivy player has been doing his best to dispel the notion that defense dominates the Ancient Eight. Princeton's Andrew Dechet earned Ivy Player of the Week honors for the second straight week...
...tobacco taxes to a first-ever state income tax is expected to be on the table. Similar cases are pending in Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee and New Jersey. These efforts to equalize spending within states, however, may be just warm- ups for a far more radical notion: equalizing spending between states, a move some educators now consider inevitable...
Even so, the relative handling of the stories amounts to a blatant rejection of the poetic notion that each time the bell of doom tolls, it tolls for all mankind. The collective news judgment seems to be that each death diminishes the reader in direct proportion to the shared bonds of nationality, ethnicity, religion, type of government and the like. Pointing out this callous calculus seems to do nothing to mitigate it. As Columbia University professor Herbert Gans noted in his 1980 study Deciding What's News, network journalists in the 1960s tried to prick their bosses' consciences by assembling...