Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What I advocate is a more truly diverse notion of excellence. What we've done is exclude the best that's been thought by everybody but this slender sliver of people who happen in the main to be white males...
Totally implausible? Of course, but also perfectly legal. The Draft Bush spoof is being circulated as black humor by underemployed Democratic consultants. As it bounces around, the notion has acquired variations. (A Republican spin: the Democrats try the ploy, but are so discombobulated that they nominate Tom Eagleton for Vice President.) Given the Democrats' performance in recent presidential elections, they could do far worse...
...rate, which dropped from 9% in the mid-1970s to a low of 2.3% in late 1987, is now about 4% and climbing. That will provide a larger pool of investment capital and could help the U.S. regain its competitive footing. The poor may also eventually benefit if the notion of a kinder, gentler America is translated into concrete action...
...some scholars, the failure of economic theory to explain existing discrimination has unleashed a debate about comparable worth--the notion that all workers should be paid the same salary for jobs that are comparably similar in expertise, importance and rank...
Perhaps the most problematic development is the emergence in dozens of cities of "Afrocentric" curriculums. All of them legitimately seek to ) bolster black children's confidence in their ability to achieve and to debunk the patronizing notion that black American history and culture began with the Emancipation Proclamation. When pursued with intellectual discipline, the Afrocentric idea can be inspirational. Says Franklyn Jenifer, president of Howard University, in recalling his own education at that historically black school: "Every course I took was infused with some sense of our destiny or my personal destiny and the possibility of my achieving...