Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think there is a notion that if the council discuss this that somehow a consensus will occur," Councillor Edward N. Cyr said. "If anything, a hearing at this point will only serve to polarize a discussion which is already quite polarized...
...wanted to read, I'd go to school." In the pursuit of freedom, the academy becomes the enemy. Unfortunately, in the process, so do all things intellectual. After all, what use is learning when the enforced method of instruction is laden with cultural prejudices while denouncing the very notion of prejudice...
Probably the overload began with the Neolithic revolution, when males who were used to a career of hunting and bragging were suddenly required to stay home and help out with the crops. Then came the modern urban-industrial era, with the unprecedented notion of the "companionate marriage." Abruptly, the * two sexes -- who had gone for millenniums without exchanging any more than the few grunts required for courtship -- were expected to entertain each other with witty repartee over dinner...
Marriage might still have survived if it had not been for the sexual revolution and the radical new notion that one's helpmeet in life should, in addition to everything else, possess erotic skills formerly known to few other than to gigolos and ladies of the night. Now anxious spouses were forced to master concepts such as the G spot and "excitation plateau." Yet no one thought it odd that the person who mowed your lawn or folded your shirts was expected to provide orgasmic experiences at night...
...back-door version of oppressive government price controls. Says Lawrence English, president of the health-care division of Cigna, a major insurer: "I was initially encouraged to hear them say they were rejecting price controls. So I have a hard time understanding how that squares with the notion of caps on insurance premiums...