Word: notional
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...number of people who bought weren'tnecessarily senior faculty. [Ginsburg] was one ofthose," said Vice President for AdministrationSally Zeckhauser, who directed HRE from 1978 untilshe was promoted to vice president this fall. Shesaid "it was generally the notion of the deans"that the mortgages would go to senior professors,but that Ginsburg's mortgage was "notinconsistent" with University policy...
Alcoholic perception is like that, in a hundred insidious and distorting ways. All of them are aimed at protecting a drunkard's notion that he is possessed of free will. My drinking buddies and I agreed that we did not have a drinking problem. Everything in our increasingly narrow world, though, was a problem that required drinking: the wife, the kids, the boss, the government. In dingy watering holes from which everyone with a healthy life to lead had gone home, we conspired to overlook the obvious, that our bodily cells were addicted, and our minds were along...
This week we are taking Luce's and Hadden's notion one step further. The magazine is introducing a section called Profile, its seventh new department this decade and the first addition since Ethics appeared last January. Profile will consist of a telling, vivid word portrait of one or another of the world's most noteworthy people -- some of whom will figure in the week's news events, all of whom will be interesting. Says Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who will supervise the section: "There was a time when this magazine featured 52 faces on its cover in the course...
That John Fedders should be paid for beating his wife is not just painfully ironic. Maryland's court system has lent support to the revolting notion that women bear responsibility for violence done to them...
Okay. Zubrow won't pick The Game. How 'bout Joe Restic? The Harvard coach has been on the Crimson sidelines for 17 years. Surely he has some notion of who's better. If you were a betting man, coach, which team would you put your money...