Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion of equal opportunity is central to the American ideal. For that goal to have any meaning, it must be rooted in an education system that gives every child a chance to succeed. But for decades, a gulf has been widening between the quality of public schooling for children of privilege and that for those born in poverty. By relying on local property taxes as a crucial source of funds, the U.S. has created a caste system of public education that is increasingly separate and unequal...
...behind the cameras, this burst of activity is a powerful signal. They are finally beginning to achieve something more than token status as directors, and more and more of them are starting to sustain coherent careers in Hollywood. Best of all, the range of their work belies the conventional notion that holds that women can be entrusted only with delicately nuanced little films dealing with intricate personal relationships. Most of them would agree that any director needs, as Coolidge says, "a strong male side and a strong female side." Good directors, she says, demonstrate "a nurturing ability," in order...
...oceans of grass that graced the North American plains. Gone too are the lush Bahamian jungles that greeted Christopher Columbus and his sea-weary men. Today these lost landscapes, like vanished civilizations, exist only as mirages that dance in the mind's eye. And until recently, any notion that such priceless heirlooms might be reclaimed would have been dismissed as hopelessly quixotic...
...There's an attitude of Why should I have someone represent me when I can represent myself?'" he said, claiming that Harvard students resent the notion of having someone represent them...
...think that the notion of a Supreme Court is incompatible with a democratic tradition...isn't [the Court] pro-foundly undemocratic...