Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liberal Democrats used to bring up the issue of universal health care, dust it off and parade it in front of the American public every four years. But in a bizarre twist of the Paul Masson Doctrine, they never managed to sell the notion that all Americans deserve medical attention--regardless of ability to pay--to the public, even though its time had long since arrived...
When more than half the city's 32 local boards balked at introducing first- graders to the notion of same-sex couples, chancellor Joseph Fernandez agreed that they could hold off until the fifth or sixth grade. But the board of District 24, in the largely blue-collar borough of Queens, refused that offer. Board president Mary Cummins labeled portions of the guide "dangerously misleading homosexual/lesbian propaganda." Even after Fernandez softened the guidelines concerning homosexuality, District 24 board members refused to meet with him. Last week the exasperated chancellor suspended them. In their place he appointed trustees who will...
...future the notion of the gay-positive classroom may go further, to examine the contributions that gay men and women have made. Arthur Lipkin, a Harvard University research associate, is developing a curriculum to help high school teachers incorporate information about gays into history, literature and psychology lessons. A series of lessons dealing with the history of gays over two centuries was recently tested among 10th-to-12th-grade social-studies classes in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The kids were riveted by the subject matter," reports Lipkin, "because they don't ordinarily see it discussed as a serious academic subject...
...drug, which was quickly administered to Byrd, has become a standard treatment for spinal-cord injuries in the U.S., and health authorities are studying proposals that would allow paramedics to inject the steroid at the scene of an accident. Just as important, says Bracken, methylprednisolone has erased the notion that these injuries are hopeless: "It's opened the door to many other studies that may lead to better recovery." Several groups are testing substances that provide the benefits of methylprednisolone without the side effects, which include depressing the immune system...
Until now, both intellectuals and pop culture figures have promoted the notion that suspicion and derision are the proper attitudes of informed citizens toward their elected officials. Listening to our parents tell where they were when JFK died is the closest my generation has come to a youthful idealism which doesn't require contempt for those in power...