Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think all of us know drugs are physically harmful, but there is another side to that notion because we are spiritual beings. Drugs are spiritually destructive. People who use drugs are getting a double whammy--they are weakened physically and they are weakened spiritually. It's hard if parents are getting stoned themselves or getting drunk. Kids respond, "If you get high, why can't we?" Parents must set the example. That's what's missing, the will to set an example...
...believe much of what they tell you in school about drugs. For example, don't buy into the notion that drug "abuse" is the same as drug "use." Remember, one means harm, and the other doesn't. Know also that a lot of people use drugs--both legal and illegal--without any apparent harm to themselves or anyone else...
People once bought stocks primarily because of the notion that the company would return a chunk of its earnings to them in the form of a hefty dividend. How quaint. The average blue-chip company now pays such a stingy dividend that the yield, which is the dividend divided by the stock price, is less than 2%--a payout so low it had been considered imponderable for most of this century. Yet here it is, another landmark racing past the windshield of this bull-market dragster. Should you care if the typical stock now yields a paltry 1 point something...
...love story than an action picture--which may not soothe his backers' anxieties. Inspired by the romance and sweep of Doctor Zhivago, the director-screenwriter has devised a fictional liaison between first-class passenger Winslet and third-class cute guy DiCaprio. The director says he's fascinated by the notion that people who were supposed to be coddled and secure were facing imminent doom. "They thought they were safe in this big luxury hotel," he says. "In fact, they were in a steel object over 2 1/2 miles of water...It's a metaphor for the inevitability of death...
...more thoughtful treatment of the ultimate boating mishap can be found in a Discovery Channel documentary that aired in October, as well as in four new books, three of them novels. Historian Steven Biel's Down with the Old Canoe argues against the notion that the Titanic's plummet marked the end of the age of innocence and of rigid class structure. "In my opinion," he writes, "the disaster changed nothing except shipping regulations...