Word: notionally
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Such comments have led Cisneros to pronounce that the issue of housing vouchers represents "the next great American debate on the subject of race," suggesting that the proposal is objectionable to those who want to keep poor minorities concentrated in the inner cities. Such a notion is hardly news to Maxine Evans, 27, who last year used a hud voucher to move out of public housing in Robbins, Illinois, to a more spacious private apartment in the racially mixed community of Blue Island. "Some people make it hard," she says. "They think folks that come from the projects...
That vicious, exponential math exacts a human toll long after conflict ends. Still, the notion that the U.S. should forswear the use of mines is unpopular among many at the Pentagon. "There's no easy way to defend a perimeter without land mines," an Army officer says. "But it's just politically incorrect to support the use of land mines right now." The ability to block an enemy's retreat by quickly dropping mines from the air is another advantage that some officials are loath to relinquish. "Mine opponents say it's a matter of morality and not military utility...
Nowhere in this hydrocarbon hysteria did the notion arise that maybe gas prices are exactly where they ought to be. The price of any commodity is a means of balancing supply and demand, and right now the balance is going in favor of higher prices. In gasoline's case, demand has clearly been on the upswing. It used to be that Americans were happy with a full tank and an open road. Now they don't even need the road, given the growing passion for heavy sport-utility vehicles. "If there hadn't been this shift to larger vehicles," says...
Unfortunately, I'm beginning to hear a lot of this talk on campus. It seems that everyone, regardless of skin color, has a notion about who's who and what's what. I'm hoping for more intelligent discussion about race...
Women, on the other hand, are more likely to have a vested interest in the notion of human interdependence: that we are not the freewheeling monads of free-enterprise ideology but vulnerable beings held together by mutual need. Thus to the residents of guy land, government often looks like the 50-ft. third-grade teacher from hell, taxing and regulating and otherwise spoiling the fun. But to a woman sandwiched between children and parents, the "Nanny state" is not a Republican pejorative but rather an extension of herself. Dump Granny out of the nursing home because the Medicare budget...