Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Alfonsin's notion provoked immediate comparisons with Brazil, which in 1960 moved its capital inland from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia. Today Rio de Janeiro continues to flourish as the country's cultural center, while politicians and diplomats regard Brasilia as a well-intentioned but disappointing experiment in decentralization...
...second reason, to bring back the notion of the two-class university, is that Harvard has worked so hard to raise its faculty to the level of demigods that students have learned to leave them alone...
...Although they may understand a complex passage read aloud to them, they cannot read it themselves or write down what they know about it. Dyslectics--an estimated 10% to 12% of the U.S. population--often do not realize what is the matter and stumble downhill under the self-destructive notion that they are stupid. In fact, many victims are exceptionally bright and ambitious. Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson and Nelson Rockefeller were dyslectic, as are Singer Cher and Athlete-TV Pitchman Bruce Jenner. The National Institute of Dyslexia gives annual achievement awards; winners this year include Stanford Political Scientist...
...that created the market for overnight mail delivery. The idea for the business first came to Founder Frederick Smith while he was a student at Yale writing a term paper on the parcel-service system. Much later, while he was flying combat missions in Viet Nam, Smith developed his notion of an "absolutely, positively overnight" service...
...There are definitely society pressures," says Julie M. Mihelich '86, co-director of Eating Problems Outreach (EPO). "There's a dislike of femininity, with the roundness associated with it. If you're really slim, you are denying the notion of femininity," she says...