Word: notions
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...most tantalizing mysteries of Elohim City, however, is the controversial notion that a young visitor named Carol Howe heard advance word there about the Oklahoma City bombing and warned the Federal Government. Howe, a former honor student at Tulsa Metro Christian Academy, fell in with Tulsa's Skinhead set. Before long she found herself at the side of Dennis Mahon, leader of White Aryan Resistance and the purveyor of Tulsa's Dial-a-Racist phone line. Mahon, 46, who until recently kept his Airstream trailer at Elohim, claims that his first contact with Howe was a letter she sent...
...replaced quickly or easily. The pilots' union badly bloodied United Airlines in a strike in 1985, and pilots hammered the final nail in Eastern Airlines' corporate coffin in a strike in 1989. The majority of American's pilots served in the military, and many seem to relish the notion of a dogfight with their famously pugnacious boss. "A lot of these guys have been in combat," says strike chairman Matthew Field of the APA. "If he wants combat, we'll give him combat...
...daughter--Jackson concentrates on transportation issues. Last week she led her party's attack in opposing privatization of the London Tube. When elections are held this spring, Labour is favored to win. Jackson is reported to be in the running as a possible Cabinet member, but regally dismisses the notion, saying, "My only political ambition is to be re-elected...
...weeks ago, I happened to tune in to a CNN program that included as one of its guests Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a leading opponent of campaign-finance reform. In dismissing the notion that the cost of a political campaign these days is bound to make politicians beholden to fat-cat contributors, Senator McConnell said Americans spend less on political campaigns than they do on yogurt. By chance, I was eating a container of yogurt when he said that. Blueberry...
Racism, fundamentally, is the view that a person's identity is determined by his race. In other words, it is the notion that race is responsible for a person's character, convictions and moral worth. This is irrational and corrupt...