Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years. It emerged from a bitter 29-day pilots' strike against United over a ^ two-tier wage scale that provided lower pay for new hires. After the dispute, F.C. ("Rick") Dubinsky and other leaders of United's branch of the Air Line Pilots Association began nurturing the buyout notion, which the union members code-named "Operation Stealthco...
Moreover, there are many who question the very premise behind ICL--the notion that students must shoulder the financial burdens of education because they are its beneficiaries. Boston University President John R. Silber, for example, vigorously attacked the Education Department's budget on these grounds in a recent New York Times editorial...
Duehay said official support for the visit would represent an "escalation" of Cambridge's role as a sister city, which he said was intended to involve no more than humanitarian aid and cultural exchanges. "The whole notion of getting involved in the internal politics of a state through the sister city project is not appropriate," he said, adding that Cambridge should instead ask Massachusetts Senators John F. Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy '54 to lodge formal complaints about the invasion...
Schools also remain faithful to a traditional notion: the nail that sticks up must be hammered down. When Sixth-Grader Tetsuya Osawa returned to Tokyo from New York City, he encountered hostility. Classmates ridiculed his Americanized way of shrugging his shoulders in answer to questions and his practice of opening doors for girls. Osawa's teacher informed the boy's mother he must "act like a Japanese person." In short order, Osawa developed a stress-related ulcer and had to be transferred to a private international school. Adults hardly fare better. Says Koji Kato, chief researcher at the National Institute...
...defining aspect of femininity, a child cannot be alienated from its mother by so material an abstraction as a contract. But then the church and the feminists disagree: The Church uses this reasoning to oppose all forms of surrogate parenting, including in vitrio fertilization. The feminists merely oppose the notion of contracting for a baby. They say that a surrogate mother must retain the right to renege on the deal if she so pleases...