Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blinded by the notion of benevolence. You're buying a mutual fund, not volunteering at a soup kitchen. Making money is part of the point. As with any sort of fund, you should look for low expenses, experienced management and a good track record. Calvert Social Investment Equity, a large-cap growth-plus-value fund that screens companies in seven areas, has fared better than the vast majority of large-cap blended funds over the past five years (although it has fallen behind the pack recently). Ariel Fund, a small-cap value fund, isn't nearly so stringent about screening...
...didn't make sense at first, but more and more studies have come out to support the paradoxical notion that the best way to prevent allergies is to expose kids to the allergens that cause them. Scientists in Denmark found that the more pets a child has, the less likely he or she is to develop allergies later in life. Having siblings, living on a farm or spending time in a day-care center also reduces allergies. Why? Presumably because exposing still-developing immune systems to allergens primes the body to recognize them as harmless. The protective effect is negated...
Turn on a football game, and you'll see cheerleaders with seam-popping breast implants, aging sportscasters with suspiciously tenacious hairlines and commercials for pills that promise Olympian erections. Turn on the news, and you'll hear about how athletes have got the notion that it's O.K. to use artificial substances to improve their bodies. Appalling! Where would they get an idea like that...
...November was broad political talks among all groupings in the Basque Country, while ETA negotiates with the Spanish and French states on disarmament, prisoners and victims of violence. He hasn't mentioned olive branches since this month's bombings. The Socialist government in Madrid has rejected Otegi's notion that negotiations can begin without a renunciation of violence from ETA. Yet Basques who condemn ETA don't believe these bombings were meant to scupper talks. Rather, they were a way of keeping the radical base loyal while inching toward negotiations. "I'm convinced that ETA and Batasuna are in agreement...
...College. Loker Commons was meant to be a small and unimposing student center, which handicapped its viability. Phillip Parsons, then director of planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was especially cognizant of the desire not to undermine House life—the perennial complaint about the notion of an inter-House social center. But since the advent of randomization in blocking, College social life no longer revolves around the Houses. And because of the College’s shortage of rehearsal, practice and meeting spaces, House spaces are no longer capable of accommodating their own communities. A student...