Word: notion
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...with a Virginia political trailblazer named Douglas Wilder. Back in 1975, when Wilder was the only black in the state senate (and the first since 1890), he gave voice to his overarching aspirations, a notion of empowerment far beyond what seemed plausible amid the genteel conservatism of the Old Dominion. "If people will elect you Lieutenant Governor," Wilder predicted with startling prescience, "they'll elect you Governor. I would think it would be an interesting test somewhere along the line for a black to run for one of those positions so as to put prejudice right on the line...
Wenger also felt the statistics were misleading. "I think the problem is the notion of diversity and how you measure it. I don't think you can measure diversity by these single statistics...
...outside of his line of vision? More seriously, Blumenthal ignores the effects the AIDS epidemic has had on our public and private displays of affection, homosexual or heterosexual. His disappointment with students' apparent willingness to quit their mates ignores the role women's liberation has played in changing the notion of marriage from a result of economic necessity to an instrument of a happier life. Isn't the latter worth waiting...
Schabowski, the East Berlin party chief and aleading reform advocate, gave no timetable ordetails, and said the party would not embark onsuch a course "with the suicidal notion that itcould be swept from the political stage...
Should the gray wolf, today an endangered species in most of the U.S., be re-established in Yellowstone? An old stockman at a meeting at Laramie, Wyo., shakes with rage at the notion; the idea is like reintroducing smallpox. But to wolf partisans, the bedrock argument is a brooding, circular truth: without wolves, there are no wolves. These complex, mysterious animals are their own justification. Beyond that, biologists see predators as balance wheels in ecosystems. No wolves mean too many elk, which is what Yellowstone has now, starving by the thousands in winter die-offs...