Word: notions
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Though a comedy specialist, Tarses now has to do everything from scheduling made-for-TV movies to (despite her fear of public speaking) giving talks to advertisers and affiliates. Yet she rejects the notion that she's too inexperienced for the job. "I was at NBC for eight years. I was exposed to every aspect of what a person in the job that I have now does. There have been many people prior to me in this job at various networks who had far less direct experience in all aspects of programming...
Since the Reagan Administration's landmark report, A Nation at Risk, sounded the alarm in 1983, schools have been under constant pressure to help all students learn more, premised on the notion that whatever we asked of students in the past will not be sufficient for them or the country in the future...
...sure that companies should be in the "business" of "doing good." Doesn't this take away from a sense of personal responsibility and devalue the notion that all of us should be "doing good"? Maybe if more of us did good often--starting at home and in the neighborhood--there wouldn't be such a need for "the do-good biz." JURIS MAZUTIS Nepean...
...year plan to high school students who had indicated an interest in teaching, he was encouraged by their response. "They could see the value added," he says. "They liked the idea of spending a full year in the classroom before going out to teach on their own, and the notion of getting two degrees." Teachers sometimes feel trapped in the profession because they don't have a degree in anything else. "In the old traditional programs," says Yinger, "we put a lot of teachers out there who already knew they didn't like teaching. I think that accounts for some...
...record unemployment, public spending cuts, wage freezes for state workers and general discontent with the government, Juppe said he will quit the premiership no matter what the outcome in next Sunday's runoff vote. It was Juppe who had persuaded Chirac to call for early elections, on the notion that their conservative coalition would fare better now than wait for next year's scheduled election. But in this first round of voting over the weekend, Chirac's power base, a coalition of center-right parties, suffered its worst showing since the start of the Fifth Republic in 1958, winning only...