Word: notional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post." The issue may be clear cut, but President Bok should be more aware than he seems to be of failures to meet his ideal. How, for instance, may the common practice of naming big givers such as Ivan Boesky to seats on visiting committees be reconciled with the notion? Does wealth give someone the right to evaluate a faculty? Harvard should face such questions forthrightly...
...underscored a process that had begun several books earlier: a movement away from the narrow, intense psychological portraits of her early fiction (A Summer Bird-Cage, The Garrick Year) toward panoramas of realistic characters placed in a recognizable society. Drabble's progress was retrograde, running against the modern notion that fiction should be deep and singular rather than broad and general. Her models -- Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Arnold Bennett (whose biography she wrote in the 1970s) -- were either considered unfashionable or inimitable...
...personable, nice job, great wife, cute kid, very happily married . . . (well, reasonably happy, I mean, O.K., I'm fortyish and I don't even want to think about approaching mid-life, let alone a mid- life crisis, but still) . . . seeks . . . (no, not 'seeks,' maybe 'is willing to entertain the notion of meeting') . . . attractive woman who might want to spend a weekend over drinks, dinner and dishes. Or not. Your call. Uh, wait! Don't call -- at home or the office. Instead, write me if you want...
...that many of their imported raw materials and components are priced in dollars and have become cheaper. With greater price stability, Japan and Germany face less pressure for wage increases. Despite the strong mark, Germany has become the world's leading exporter. Japan is openly contemptuous of the notion that the U.S. can solve its problems through devaluation. Says Johsen Takahashi, chief economist of the Mitsubishi Research Institute: "Letting the dollar slip now is like spitting up into the sky." Another Japanese economist is equally blunt: "America is no longer in control of its own currency...
...early 1980s, this group was questioning the notion that racism is an adequate explanation for the disparities between Black and white achievement. The group members attacked not only affirmative action and busing, but also civil rights leaders like Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP, who they said had a personal interest in policies that had proven themselves ineffective...