Word: notions
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Reagan has aged less visibly in office than most of his modern predecessors. Indeed, his robust example may undermine the notion that age necessarily saps vigor. Said Spar: "Nowadays people between 65 and 75 are statistically more like young people than they are like old people." At about age 75, many people cross a vaguely defined line between what gerontologists call "young-old" and "old-old." They become less vigorous and more infirm. But doctors caution that the effects of aging vary greatly from person to person, and that Reagan is on the young side...
...that not only offers little chance of success but also the possibility of harmful retaliation. Bok opposes divestment because, he argues, by selling its stock in companies because they do business in South Africa, Harvard would be using for political ends resources given for educational means. Bok refuses the notion of the university as a political action committee...
Still, according to Maglione, "several people were very interested in pushing forward this notion" of the school being old. "You'd better believe it. I don't care what anyone else says. We believe it!" says a secretary in Collegiate's development department...
...wants to take the notion of social agreement on certain moral principles that will seem to be reasonable and extend it to a general and more comprehensive moral view," Rawis said last year on the occasion of Scanlon's acceptance...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III noted in his 1972 study of the arts at Harvard, the notion of a "university" is based on ancient Greek ideals, "in which reason and verbal discourse were far more important than manual skills and creative imagination...