Word: notionalism
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...elderly people dealing drugs," he says. "A lot of people are retired or on disability, and they think, Well, if Paw-paw can sell his pills, that's $2,400. And if Maw-maw can sell hers, that's $4,800." Census Bureau data support Caudill's notion: 12,481 of the county's 44,362 residents claim some sort of disability. If coal miners gave OxyContin its start in southwestern Virginia, injured steelworkers were among the first to use it in eastern Ohio, where its illicit use remains a serious problem, says Jennifer Bolen, a former federal prosecutor...
...generalized sense that American-style democratic capitalism will never again face a serious challenge is one of the most troubling aspects of our current societal discourse. Today, the notion that America might one day have to confront a fully-formed, radical, and expansionist ideology such as Nazism or Soviet Communism is almost laughable. Yet if history has one clear lesson to offer us, it is this: New challenges will inevitably rise and blindness towards them is extremely dangerous...
...appears, was a hugely popular book, The Purpose Driven Life, by Rick Warren, an unabashedly Christian guide to making it through life's highs and lows by constantly asking what God has intended for you. The book is indeed a powerful one--precisely because it insists on the notion that God knows all of us intimately, especially sinners. Smith says she read from chapter 33, which centers on the role of Christian service, on the idea that in every moment there is a chance to serve others. "You can tell what they are by what they...
...notion," wrote famed Pundit Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald Tribune last week, "is that when the American people finally arouse themselves to take action against lawlessness, one of the many things they will have to attend to is the practice of printing news which might interfere with the detection of a crime. I think I appreciate the importance of a free press. But I am quite unable to believe that the Press would be less free if some reasonable restraint were put upon its right to make instantaneous copy out of clues which are vital to the detection...
...Almighty Harvard had been caught with the pants down,” the applicant writes, adding that in dubbing the applicants “hackers,” “the school disregarded all sense of tact and manners in favor of some artificial notion of moral supremacy… The overall attitude of the institution left a very bad taste in my mouth...