Word: notionalism
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...studying uncontrolled cancer growth and teaching biochemistry at the University of Louisville in 1985 when a student who had worked in a burn unit suggested that the way cells respond to cancer could point to a new method to help burn victims heal without their wounds becoming infected. The notion intrigued Schultz and led to the invention of his antibacterial bandages 20 years later...
MARTINEZ: And I think the intensity of the immigration debate is ratcheted up by the cultural issue. Not to say that people are necessarily racist, but I think people have the notion that the mainstream, majority American, Anglo-European culture--whatever you want to call it--is eroding, and I think that makes a lot of people very anxious...
...think that?s somebody who has seen what that device is. It?s not a device for everybody, and it?s not even in any one of those categories. Innovation has always been a challenge and it always should be. The bar should be set high. The notion that some analyst will be confused all the time and all analysts will be confused some of the time, I think that?s been true forever. Hopefully a few analysts aren?t confused a few times so that the message gets through. Basically products succeed by word of mouth...
...cautioned students against “selling out your soul” to self-interest. The two Law School faculty members, both black, joined a historian, a business professor, and an economist at a roundtable sponsored by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at which the scholars debated the notion of “acting white.” Kennedy, who is the Klein professor of law, said, “I think people need to work themselves free not only of white supremacy impediments but also from impediments that are imposed from within the black collective...
...Puchtel took the offer to come to Harvard, but decided, after his freshman season, that he no longer wanted to play football. His athletic career would continue, however, as he joined the junior varsity basketball team during his sophomore fall, though at the time he entertained little notion of making a charge for the varsity...