Word: notionalism
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...College has clearly not communicated to students just how important their evaluations are for the careers of their instructors. Most undergraduates seem to believe that their evaluations are primarily for the CUE guide, and the College has not disabused them of this notion. As a result, while students often make thoughtful and helpful comments on informal mid-term evaluations, their CUE evaluations are usually too vague to be helpful...
...think our notion is that because rock shows are really happening and theater by its very nature is pretending to create a story, the question became, ‘Can we create events that in some way or another are actually happening,’” Stern says...
...Ahmadinejad is a worrying threat to the international community, and he proved this week that enriching plutonium isn't the only way he has to thumb his nose at it. But the debacle of U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere in the region may have put paid to the notion that the enemy of my enemy is my friend...
...many friends will we make and lose, or never lose because the Facebook generation will follow one another through all their travels and troubles and triumphs? Lizzie was married for half a century; but she was widowed for half a century as well. What will become of the notion of soulmate for life, when life leaves room for two, three, four marriages, each lasting for decades...
...While the once innovative industry is struggling to find a new direction, the state's schools have moved into the fast lane of educational reform. "The collapse of the auto industry, which also exploded the notion embedded in the DNA here that you can make a good living despite being a high school dropout, created a perfect storm for convincing everyone we needed to make changes," says Michael Flanagan, Michigan's superintendent of public instruction. For three months last fall a task force of state education officials, school superintendents, college deans and a Ford Motor Company executive pored over scholarly...