Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carry a backpack. Frustrated teachers say often only a handful of students turn in homework, making it nearly impossible to discuss course material. The Boston Globe reported that as many as 20% of teachers have, in response, simply stopped assigning homework. "Peculiar to urban high schools is the notion that homework is an imposition," laments Boston High English teacher Riza Gross. "It's horrifying and deteriorating...
...says, and observes that many day-care centers insist that children be out of diapers by age three. Under this sort of pressure, he suspects, many are resorting to just the sort of rigid timetables Rosemond advocates. Like Brazelton, psychologist and child-care expert Penelope Leach dismisses the notion that laid-back parenting has caused problems. She too believes kids who are forced to use the toilet before they're ready "are more likely to rebel and develop anal retention that can cause severe constipation or blockages...
...Ventura a standing ovation. A college crowd yelled for a band to get off the stage so the Governor could come out. The World Wrestling Federation rushed out a commemorative video titled The Mouth, the Myth, the Legend. And a capitol lobbyist said Ventura doesn't have the foggiest notion how government works...
...coming year, as Y2K becomes a more familiar problem, the ranks of secular Y2K survivalists may grow. But most early "roosters"--people who see apocalypse on the millennial horizon--came to their conclusions through a prism of religious belief. Though millennialism hinges upon the notion of Christ's return, there are pockets of religious Year 2000 cultism even in nations that are mostly non-Christian. Chen Tao, for instance, is a Taiwan-based group of cultists whose beliefs combine ufo lore with rough-and-ready bits of Christianity. In 1997 a group of them settled in Garland, Texas, to await...
This year, after splitting a weekend against RPI and Union, few gave the Crimson a chance against now-No. 6 B.C. in a non-conference home game. The notion was downright comical a month ago when Harvard languished in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference basement...