Word: positioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each instance the miscarriage occurred immediately after areas near their homes were sprayed. The women's doctors signed affadavits and provided elaborate case histories which indicate that the dioxin probably caused the miscarriages. Women in other sprayed areas have given birth to severely deformed children, and again doctors posit no causes other than the dioxin...
...slanders and half-truths go unrebutted. Ms. Rosenthal represents two political organizations, the Committee Against Racism and the Sociobiology Study Group, part of Science for the People of Boston, yet she dares to continually attack those who dispute her brand of ideological orthodoxy with being "unscientific." She seems to posit some grand conspiracy advocating "immigration restriction, eugenics, imperialism, and anti-communism," originating in Spenser's Social Darwinism, continuing with the actions of "Nazi biologist[s]," and exhibiting itself today in "Arthur Jensen's revival of the doctrine of black genetic inferiority, thereby initiating a new wave of academic racism...
...whole lot of people--including, eventually, you--are going to be in serious trouble. In the land of the IRS and thick telephone books it may seem inconceivable that a government couldn't count its people (much less provide them with some basic level of care), but we posit educated, well fed, mobilized populaces, and governments which are in touch with their people. Neither posit holds in Bangladesh...
...give this guy a couple of hundred bucks. He comes around, sometimes, when he feels like it, and there's nothing you can do about it, not even Jesus Christ can help you." This monologue centers around right and wrong and accountability and it seems to posit welfare workers as mortal gods. But Wiseman never says or does anything more about this mythology of the bureaucracy and it's almost lost...
...yield delightful and unexpected (because illogical) associations which form a fine complement to the more dependable logic of men. In feminist circles, the nature of the female imagination has been debated on more egalitarian grounds. There was a time when feminists regarded as counter-insurgent any effort to posit an imagination different from man's. More recently, however, women have come to note the distinction between nature (which is human) and experience (which has gender). Spacks uses the term "female imagination" in this sense to refer to women's responses to their particular situations, situations which take on special meaning...