Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...others say the blame cannot be placed on only one sector of society. "I don't subscribe to the notion that youth of America has been brought up to worship the almighty dollar," Fleischman says. "I don't think you can indict an entire generation, or a society...
Mater notes that the notion of applying a Marshall Plan in a Third World context would be misguided. "Development aid is different from the Marshall Plan was because you don't have the infra-structure [already in place]. You can't go into Sierra Leone or Bangladesh and do that," he says...
...Nightline, Bakker, musing about a possible return to PTL, proposed to set up a new 25-member board to govern the organization. The notion of the Bakkers' making a comeback might seem incredible, but supportive mail has poured in to the Palm Springs retreat. Some Pentecostals think Bakker could try to set up a clone of Heritage USA in California, or an independent Charismatic congregation somewhere. Indeed, one Chattanooga, Tenn., TV station has already offered to help Bakker launch a new gospel show. Says the Rev. Tommy Barnett, of the flourishing (15,000-member) Phoenix First Assembly...
...touch base with the inhabitants of Quinta, the "fifth planet of the sixth sun" in the constellation Harpy. The earthly powers cooperate in funding and launching this enterprise because all other attempts to detect intelligent life elsewhere in the universe have failed. The old-fangled, late 20th century notion of scanning the skies for meaningful radio signals yielded nothing but static and was folly besides. The new theory favors the "window of contact," the relatively brief span during which any civilization achieves industrial know-how and then either destroys itself or lapses into self-absorbed silence. As a physicist aboard...
Today Orville would probably have to say something like "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." But there is nothing in Fred Howard's biography to suggest that either of these Dayton bicycle mechanics ever had such a grandiose notion. The bachelor sons of Bishop Milton Wright lived in a circumscribed world of nuts and bolts. They took care of business, and by trial and error they slowly realized their dream of flight on the sands of the Outer Banks and over Huffman Prairie, a half-mile-long field on the Dayton-Springfield trolley...