Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waco, Texas, they returned home and reported the information to Paul Pressler, their former Sunday school teacher. Pressler, a state appeals court judge, who is a cum laude Princeton alumnus and former state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner and the road warrior for the cause. They succeeded in getting conservative presidents elected, and boards began tilting rightward...
...catalyst of the new alliance had even larger purposes in mind. The growth of anti-Soviet guerrilla movements, said Lehrman, is part of "the second stage of the American Revolution, (which was) always intended by the founders to be a world revolution." Lehrman dramatized his notion by presenting each of the four rebel leaders with a copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
Still, some psychiatrists and educators took issue with the notion that segregating homosexual students in a separate facility is the best solution for their difficulties at other schools. In San Francisco, which has one of the largest homosexual populations in the U.S., Schools Spokesman Felix Duag doubted that his city would follow New York's example. Said Duag: "We try to mainstream students so that they have the experience of meeting boys and girls from all walks of life, because that is what they're going to do when they graduate...
...Department admitted last week that two people were primarily responsible for the scheme "in a criminal sense." The department defended this act of amnesty by arguing that it wanted a fast settlement so that the banks could get their money back quickly. Said Assistant Attorney General Stephen Trott: "The notion that the Justice Department is being soft is ridiculous. E.F. Hutton will repay every red cent plus interest." But critics in Congress fumed. Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware said, "Respect for the law suffers immensely when the public reads that you have (the Hutton) scheme going on, and nobody...
Mention the notion of a play about newspapering, and audiences tend to think of characters like those so affectionately evoked in The Front Page: raffish, even loutish, prone to sensationalism and cheap sentiment, but also truthful, keenly professional and dedicated to exposing wrongdoing in high places. Reporters have delighted in seeing themselves depicted as figures of quixotic integrity in plays ranging from the Broadway musical Woman of the Year to Tom Stoppard's rueful tragicomedy Night and Day. But the current wave of antipress feeling in the U.S. may have spread to Britain as well. Audiences at London's National...