Word: notions
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...help thinking that there's something perversely sick about a person who feels he or she has the right to break into someone else's account, and that perversity is spreading. The notion of privacy of any sort is rapidly diminishing. There are already those in the electronic community working against this rising tide--individuals who write anonymous re-mailer programs, who disseminate easy-to-use cryptography programs. But all this seems equally perverse, the product of some semi-fictional Pynchonian conspiracy theory...
Refuting the notion that the cuts helped the working family, Kerry said that they instead directly benefited corporations and wealthy individuals...
...notion of Big Labor as a potent force might seem like a relic from the days of sock hops and soda shops. But Barbour and the Republicans were stirred up for good reason. The 13 million-member AFL-CIO tossed the President an early endorsement and backed it up with a special assessment of union dues to bankroll a blitz of saturation advertising, computer-assisted organizing and massive telemarketing. The enterprise amounts to an all-out war by organized labor to turn back the Republican tide of 1994. John Sweeney, the AFL-CIO's new rabble-rousing president, told TIME...
...Usenet news are privately owned resources, and each new group they carry takes up expensive disk space. There's a huge difference between an individual allowing an opponent to have his say, and that individual using his own private resources to propagate his opponent's views in a misguided notion of fair play. While it would be reprehensible for me to lobby for legislation banning neo-Nazi speech, it would be absurd for me to allow neo-Nazis to use my house as a recruiting station. It would also be entirely acceptable for me to try and convince a local...
Underlying the University's decision is a superficial, check-list notion of diversity. As opposed to looking at the individual person and his or her personal qualities and interests, the University has reverted to a group-identity form of diversity where two people from the same area and the same socio-economic milieu, interested in similar academic and extra-curricular activities, of different races are more "diverse" than two people from different parts of the country, with radically different family backgrounds and interests, of the same ethnicity. This is not to say that race does not play a central role...