Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, many gays are wary of the genetic hypothesis. It could, they fear, help promote the notion that gayness is a "defect" in need of "fixing." "Any finding will be used and twisted for homophobic purposes," says Martin Duberman, head of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York. "If it does turn out that for some people, there is a genetic or hormonal component, the cry will then arise to take care of that." Indeed, the cry is already rising. The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, president of the Traditional Values Coalition...
...Gore stepped up the rhetoric. "Some of the decisions made by executives in the entertainment industry, the advertising industry, the creative community, have been obscene and atrocious.'' It was fine with him, Gore added, to try to shame corporate executives into reining in their product, though he rejected the notion that "shaming alone is a magic solution...
...town manager who are all more directly involved in running the town. The town meeting has representatives(199 in all) from nine precincts, and we review the decisions of the other bodies, and we sign off on the town budget. Lexington government is almost a Social Studies 10 Tocquevillian notion of institutional levels and divisions to prevent tyranny of the majority...
...there are drawbacks to speaking out. As anelite institution, Harvard may not berepresentative of higher education. And some inthe public are annoyed by the notion of Harvardand its $6 billion endowment coming to Washingtonbegging for money...
Sophomore T.J. Carella ended that notion seconds into the second overtime half. Carella found the back of the Brown net with a perfect strike on a direct kick, and the result was sealed...