Word: notions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could show the White House is willing to take a hard line toward Tung, who announced last week that the new government will require police approval of demonstrations and allow political parties to be banned. Although Tung blamed the cancellation on a busy schedule, and aides laughed off the notion that Lee's White House invitation had anything to do with it, the timing was not lost on the worried citizens of Hong Kong...
...Housing is one of the possibilities" for the South Street properties, said Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III in an interview yesterday. But Epps cautioned that such a notion is "just a hypothetical...
...year span of human civilization, from the dawn of cities to space flight, has taken place during a period of extraordinary warmth and stability. The past 150 years, which have seen the industrial and information ages, have been even more remarkably clement. The experience has left humanity with the notion that climate is warm and stable. But those who look at the past know different. "Climate is an angry beast," says Lamont's Wallace Broeker, "and we are poking it with sticks...
...devout Christian, and I don't give much thought to heaven. My spirituality isn't based on an anthropomorphic, kick-butt God who will throw four generations of children into eternal damnation because some distant forefather ticked him off. Heaven is the flip side of the absolutely barbaric notion of hell that evolved under that kick-butt mind...
...blobs to me, and I no longer idolize astronauts. I have since learned that the exalted Hayden Planetarium's Pink-Floyd-and-astronomy extravaganzas provided psychedelic entertainment for drug users citywide. I find most of our nation's space program to be a waste of time and money. The notion of launching tomato seeds into space is morally repugnant when there are those who die of starvation on a daily basis. Housing men and women in space stations seems futile when homeless people slumber just outside my door. Perhaps it is merely an end of innocence, but the intergalactic dreams...