Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martyn said the new goal of the office was to give students an "expanded notion" of the kinds of jobs available, as well as to continue its original purpose of helping graduates find academic positions...
...Killer Instinct" puts into perspective the notion of competition and winning that all of us can understand. We at Harvard have been "winners" most of our lives--class presidents, football captains, number ones, whatever, and these days of the pre-professional rat race have heightened our competitive instincts all the more...
...poured some $30 million of his personal fortune into Tres Vidas and borrowed millions more, the resort continued to sink deeper into the red. In 1971 Braniff International Corp. took over managerial control from the man who was once its chairman and began doing away with his members-only notion. "Tres Vidas," announced Braniff, "is a private-membership country club. Guests are currently being accepted on a get-acquainted basis ..." With visions of the hoi polloi overrunning their dream resort, remaining members began to shy away, hastening the downfall of Tres Vidas. By 1974 Braniff had converted Post...
...Competition, which once determined how and to what degree resources would be used, is being eroded by community need. It was to this notion that ITT appealed in 1971 when it successfully prevented the Justice Department from forcing it to divest itself of Hartford Fire Insurance Co. "The company lawyers said, in effect, 'Don't visit that old idea of competition on us. The public interest requires ITT to be big and strong at home so it can withstand the blows of Allende in Chile, Castro in Cuba and the Japanese in general...
...notion that the whole will somehow take care of itself if the parts are looked after is no longer valid. Instead, there is a growing acceptance of "holism," a new consciousness of the interrelation of all things. "Spaceship earth, the limits of growth, the fragility of our life-supporting biosphere have all dramatized the ecological and philosophical truth that everything is related to everything else...