Word: notionally
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...sure to leave the drinking age question off of its list of complaints of over-reaching federal intervention. Note the decision of Governor William F. Weld '66 not to campaign for his party's nomination. Republicanism today is dominated by an insular morality which would override any such notion as economic libertarianism, just as the rhetoric of Gingrich and Gramm dominates that of Weld and Wilson...
...companions around the world. At 18, a U.S. citizen is man or woman enough to vote, fight in the military, drive a car, buy cigarettes and pornography and be financially independent. Yet is he or she not enough of an adult to imbibe alcohol? That is an absurd notion. Either 18 translates to full citizenry or it doesn...
...before the cosmos was one second old. Then there was cold dark matter, hypothetical subatomic particles that may account for 99% of the mass of the universe and may relegate ordinary atoms-and the stars, planets and people they make up-to the status of a cosmic afterthought. Another notion described distortions in the very fabric of space and time, going by the name cosmic strings and cosmic textures. And lately theorists have revived an old idea known as hot dark matter, and an even older one called the cosmological constant. The latter is a kind of cosmic antigravity that...
...students don't even understand "the basics of American history," and we should therefore concentrate on teaching them these basics, and not "multicultural niceties" like sex education. Consider the following question: which would you want your child to be more knowledgeable about, the dangers of unprotected sex, or Hobbes' notion of the social contract? When it comes to all-too-common dangers such as teen pregnancy and AIDS, I think that knowing how to use a condom is far more important and relevant to the average high school student's life than being able to explain social Darwinism...
Malone responded, "The notion that Blacks have a different mindset, that's a kind of disgusting stereotype...