Word: notions
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Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev endorsed still another arms-control idea last week, this one for a zone in central Europe free of chemical weapons. The U.S. rejected the notion as quickly as it thumbed down Gorbachev's suggestion last month for a moratorium on underground nuclear tests. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes called the chemical-free zone a "resurfacing and repackaging of ideas we have heard before" and added that, besides, it would be difficult to verify...
...West first surfaced when Erik Ninn-Hansen, Denmark's Justice Minister, asserted in a television interview after the London disclosure that Gordievsky had cooperated with the Danish government while he was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Copenhagen from 1972 to 1978. But British officials disputed the notion that they had simply taken over the Soviet agent when he moved to Britain...
...explain the outbreak, some analysts pointed to the area's economic distress. Unemployment in Handsworth, for instance, stands at 36%, nearly three times the national average. Yet even the Labor Party opposition was reluctant to ascribe the rampage purely to economic conditions, and Thatcher, for her part, rejected the notion outright. She denounced those who blamed the riot on unemployment as "Moaning Minnies...
...sportswriters on Florida papers kept bumping into each other on the sportswriters' circuit, and when their workdays were done, they tended to talk baseball, a shared passion. In time these discussions moved beyond the esoterica that baseball nuts adore. Instead they became romantic, roseate, starry-eyed dialogues on the notion of owning their own team. Then last November, the romance died. They bought a ball club...
...notion that "insiderism" can expose the true campaign is peddled in two books by two quintessentially Washington institutions: Newsweek, and the columnists Jack Germond and Jules Witcover (Germond qualifies solo). Newseek commited at least seven top-flight reporters to the gargantuan task of placing you, the reader, in the hip pocket of the candidates and their aides. Germond and Witcover, who can't help but write from the perspective of politicians' hip pockets, exhaustively chronicle the motivations and actions of all the Democratic pretenders and give a detailed account of the President's reelection effort...