Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, there's a distrust of recitation as a means of character building or education. More importantly, though, Harvard people, in their hyper-educated sophistication, are for the most part uncomfortable with the notion of morality and with the public discussion of virtues and vices and their distinctions. That, I think, is troubling...
...Such a notion arises naturally when the state runs budget deficits that for the past three years total nearly $10 billion. In the summer of 1992, for the first time since the 1930s, California had to resort to IOUs to pay its bills. And Los Angeles again has taken the hardest hit. The police, who have not received a raise in three years, launched a series of job actions this fall. The city's teachers had their pay cut 10%. It now costs a resident student $3,727 (excluding room, books and board) to attend the University of California, compared...
...President's rising approval rating is partly the reflected glow from an increasingly rosy economy. After what felt like an endless recession, Americans are gingerly re-examining the almost forgotten notion of good times ahead. Fifty-two percent of those in the TIME/CNN poll say things are going well in the U.S., up impressively from only 39% last October. Even if many Americans don't give all the credit to Clinton -- 47% say he's doing a good job of handling the economy, while 42% say no -- a rising tide, as the economists say, lifts all boats. The ship...
Just 150 years ago, the notion that much of the Northern Hemisphere had once been covered by thick sheets of ice was both new and highly controversial. Within a few decades, though, most scientists were convinced and began looking for explanations. Several suggested that astronomical cycles were involved, and by the 1930s the Yugoslav astronomer Milutin Milankovitch had constructed a coherent theory. The ice ages, he argued, were triggered by changes in the shape of the earth's slightly oval orbit around the sun and in the planet's axis of rotation. Studies of the chemical composition of ocean-floor...
...kinds of issues that drew those accusations were generally opinions about free speech in the wake of various campus controversies. In general, I came into conflict with other members of the staff when I fought against the notion of abridging anyone's free speech, or the notion that "sensitivity" should not take precedence over the First Amendment. That's a fairly conservative view, in some cases, that may have offended the sensibilities of some more liberal students...