Word: notional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most misconceived and disheartening of Han's suggestions, though, is that there exists at Harvard the notion that "intellectual prowess" and "athletic talent" are mutually exclusive. She, as an intercollegiate athlete herself, should know that there is not an inverse correlation between athletic talent and academic ability. President Bok's recent survey demonstrated that students involved in time-consuming activities such as athletics tend to do better academically than their classmates who are less involved. In addition, statistics show that board scores of entering athletes are on a par with those of their classmates and that, once at Harvard, athletes...
Those tendencies were compounded by the Enlightenment notion of a mechanistic universe that man could shape to his own ends through science. The exuberant optimism of that world view was behind some of the greatest achievements of modern times: the invention of laborsaving machines, the discovery of anesthetics and vaccines, the development of efficient transportation and communication systems. But, increasingly, technology has come up against the law of unexpected consequences. Advances in health care have lengthened life-spans, lowered infant-mortality rates and, thus, aggravated the population problem. The use of pesticides has increased crop yields but polluted water supplies...
...world as a whole," explained Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute. "In some countries there may be a need to set a goal of one child per family." That is a daunting challenge. During the past decade, many of the world's poor nations condemned the notion of family planning as an imperialist and racist scheme touted by the developed world. Yet today virtually all Third World countries are committed to limiting population growth...
Gorbachev's refrain of glasnost and perestroika also raises the specter of another Russian word, peredyshka, the old Leninist notion of seeking a "breathing space" by making temporary accommodations so that the revolution can eventually roar forward with renewed zeal...
...notion of a sister city is to develop educational and cultural kinds of exchanges," he said. "But when a disaster like this happens, we've got to adopt a new mode for this type of relationship...