Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this college, as in the country at large, someone is well represented if his or her views are ably advocated by his or her representative. Our elections exist to secure the best possible spokesperson for the interests of our houses and districts. But this entire arrangement rests upon the notion that a person can be effectively represented by someone different from him or herself. If that were not the case, then all 6,000 of us would have to sit in Harvard Hall 104 on Sunday nights-we're all different...
...male who has had sex with another male since 1977, impose a flat ban on blood donation from gay men under the guise of protecting the public at large. The issue I have with this regulation is that it creates a false sense of security by supporting the notion that HIV infection and AIDS are exclusively "gay", and therefore, by protecting our blood supply from the blood of gay men, we are safe. The regulation reeks of the idiotic thinking implicit in President Reagan's announcement that he has asked "the Department of Health and Human Services to determine...
Your home has always been your castle, and it used to double as a piggy bank, until a classic late-'80s bust crushed the notion of housing as an investment. But the market is finally springing to life again, and fast. Remember those heady housing markets of the 1970s and mid-'80s? Forget 'em. Not returning anytime soon. But for the first time in a decade, home prices in most of the U.S. are rising fast enough to outstrip the inflation rate of about 2.5%. And there are many hot spots. The Midwest is seeing some of the biggest leaps...
...change was so profound it spooked me. I'd done some reading by then on neurotransmitters, and I wasn't entirely comfortable with the notion that human laughter is, at bottom, a chemical phenomenon. After hearing from several friends how much more relaxed I looked, some whip-wielding inner Puritan took over and convinced me that I should throw away my pills...
...executive vice president of Lowe & Partners/SMS. "I'll be 53 next month. My daughter just turned 29, and we have a lot more in common than not. We wear the same things and eat the same things, and I'm in better shape than when I was 30. The notion that there is some sort of break at 50 is meaningless...