Word: notionalism
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...quality was more consistent, but the real reason for the switch was that an employee needed 24 fewer seconds to draw an espresso--a double shot of productivity. "People struggled with it," says Silvia Peterson, director of store operations engineering. The new machine was at odds with the Starbuckian notion of a "handcrafted" beverage. An ice dispenser that would have eliminated time spent scooping was rejected as a step too far. "It was big and QSR-like," says Peterson--QSR being an abbreviation for quick-serve restaurant, as in fast food, anathema to Starbucks. "It was a lot of stainless...
...Reaching for the Center" [Nov. 20]: The American people used the power of the vote to boot the corrupt, ideologically blinkered, full-of-themselves Republicans out of their congressional majorities. Our Founding Fathers were skeptical of the notion that seemingly virtuous politicians would always govern wisely. The founders knew from historical experience that even the most righteous can succumb to the temptations that power brings. Troy Lee Zukowski Portage, Michigan...
...recognize is that many mascot names are generally acceptable because they reinforce positive cultural stereotypes (e.g., Minutemen, Colonials) or challenge non-negative cultural stereotypes (e.g., Fighting Quakers). On the other hand, most mascot names that refer to Native Americans reinforce negative cultural stereotypes: the Redskins (harking back to the notion that all Native Americans have red skin), the Fighting Sioux (reminding us that even until the 1950s, American children watched TV shows that depicted “the Injuns” as warrior peoples). If cultural progressivism is about creating inclusive communities where everyone has adequate opportunities to mold...
...have been a mourning event,” Stern said. “It really does not show that productive steps are being taken to achieve peace.” Several members of the PSC said that in this case, politics were simply unavoidable. “The very notion that you can pay tribute to [Palestinian] deaths in an apolitical way is completely fallacious,” the PSC wrote in a statement. “Mourning the dead without talking about how and why they died dishonors their memory.” Rohr said she still hopes...
More than 98 percent of schools in the U.S. are co-educational. Historically, the justification had more to do with economic sensibilities than educational philosophies. It was cheaper, and perhaps more efficient, to make schools for males and females together. Once people accepted the (once radical) notion that girls had brains, it was even egalitarian to educate the two sexes in the same classroom with the same teacher...