Word: notions
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...other camp are the so-called neoliberals. They reject the notion that government can solve social problems by throwing money at them. Instead, their emphasis is on formulating national policies to promote economic growth. The neoliberals are also called high-tech Democrats, for their emphasis on steering the economy away from troubled industries like automobiles and steel to high-technology firms specializing in microchips and computers.* They include Senators Gary Hart of Colorado, Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressmen Panetta and Richard Gephardt of Missouri...
Scott, who is black, is a solid refutation of the widely held notion that feminism is strictly a white, middle-class issue. That remains a common enough criticism, as if the whole movement could be bundled up in a Volvo station wagon and sent off for a spin into irrelevancy. In fact, minority women may still be more concerned with problems of employment and discrimination than with the comparatively rarefied legalities of a constitutional amendment. But even their priority issues, in the words of former NOW President Aileen Hernandez, "flow out of the ERA." Adds Ruth Mandel, director...
This is an increasingly popular and provocative notion, but Bell fails to explain why. His book, based on the anecdotal evidence of 100 conversations with various white-middle class men is intended as a "progress report" on the changes in man's concept of manhood brought on by the women's movement and the vaguely defined technological-economic changes of the 60s and 70s. This is a mushy premise to start from inevitably it produces mushy conclusion. Here they are: Men today are torn between their desire for more equal partnership; men want close male friendships, but find emotional intimacy...
...four dissenters objected that the ruling put the President "above the law." Wrote Justice Byron White: "It is a reversion to the old notion that the King can do no wrong." He chided the majority for abandoning the approach used in other immunity cases: that the shield attaches to functions rather than to offices. Though district attorneys, for example, have absolute immunity while prosecuting a case, they do not have it when directing an investigation. White also argued that an impenetrable shield denies an aggrieved citizen his right to an adequate remedy...
...past 20 years have stimulated the antiself. They have encouraged the notion of continuous self-renewal-as if the self were destined to be an endless series of selves. Each one would be better than the last, or at least different, which was the point: a miracle of transformations, dreams popping into reality on fast-forward, life as a hectic multiple exposure...