Word: notionalism
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...with the capricious machinery of meta-natural laws at Hogwarts school. The movies? spookiness was a Halloween trick (or, if they liked it, treat) - the equivalent of a mischievous uncle shouting Boo! on the other side of the door. Just what you?d expect from director Chris Columbus, whose notion of childhood stretches from funny-scary (he directed Home Alone) to scary-funny (he scripted the evil-kids-on-the-rampage Gremlins...
...wages and benefits are not sufficient, even if it does not specifically endorse SLAM’s proposed $20 an hour solution. The resolution also “calls on the University to honor the explicit promises it made to custodial workers in 2002.” Though the notion of honoring contractual promises seems non-political, it is a matter of dispute between the two parties. For instance, SLAM claims it was a contractual obligation to have 60 percent of janitors be full-time employees by 2005. The University, however, states that the 60 percent figure was actually...
...fair wage for Boston-area workers.The Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), a student activist organization that says it represents the demands of the workers, has pushed for a $20-per-hour wage plus benefits for all of Harvard’s custodial employees.Union representatives criticized Harvard’s notion of fairness.“I’ve been frustrated because the administration keeps talking about the market as a whole and that their wages fit within the spectrum of the market,” Snegroff said. “But we would expect Harvard...
...conduct a suicide "martyr mission" in Australia but had been denied permission; others were suspected to have trained with terrorist groups overseas. Crown Prosecutor Richard Maidment said the surveillance had detected "a constant theme ... directed at violent jihad which has no respect for human life and embracing the notion that it's permitted, in certain circumstances, to kill innocent women and children...
...Democrats cannot accept the notion that only veterans have the standing to attack the war. By relying on veterans to convince the American public that the war in Iraq was a bad idea, we risk reinforcing the belief that non-veterans have no right to criticize America’s foreign policy. If Americans get used to seeing only veterans speaking out on foreign policy (on both sides), we risk a situation where the American public believes only those who have fought have the right to an opinion on matters of war and peace. This perception is undemocratic and dangerous...