Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week before, now it was South Africa's white President, P.W. Botha, saying virtually the same thing. The defiant stands on both sides of the embattled nation's apartheid clash focused on the same subject: sanctions. While Tutu had reacted angrily to Ronald Reagan's attack on the whole notion of employing punitive measures against the Pretoria government, Botha was striking out at the mounting international determination to step up pressure against South Africa...
...paper will probably end the year in the red. The Times's publisher, Robert Atwood, 79, says that he is far from abandoning the war. "We're in a position to buy them out and relieve them of their losses," he says. But more quietly, Atwood offers a notion that seven short years ago would have been unthinkable: the Times might contemplate a joint operating agreement with the News. "I guess McClatchy's pockets are deeper than mine," he concedes...
...dispel Helms' notion that Reagan and the State Department might view the recent events in Chile differently, White House Spokesman Edward Djerejian declared, "Ambassador Barnes is carrying out the President's policy toward Chile...
...workers to meet under the new monitoring systems. Labor leaders contend that the working speeds are often set according to how fast the equipment can go, rather than what pace is comfortable for an average employee. Says Joseph Weizenbaum, professor of computer science at M.I.T.: "There is a widespread notion among employers that it is bad ever to let the computer wait -- ever to let it sit idle. We should realize that a few seconds aren't going to matter and say, 'Let's be human about this...
...succeeds Reagan will have to emulate him: "Reagan won the baby-boom vote in 1984 because he projected tolerance. They did not think that Reagan would impose his personal views on them. A Republican can afford to be more conservative on social issues as long as he conveys the notion of tolerance...