21.   Old notions of corporate loyalty and retention have given way to a job-hopping frenzy.

22.   Perhaps the most important casualty of the violent Christmas weekend is the old notion of how this dirty war might be ended.

23.   Shame is a notion as old as humanity, a motivator of behavior that some people think is lacking in the United States.

24.   Soccer, according to an old quasi-Marxist notion, is the opium of the people, used by rulers to manipulate the masses.

25.   The nonchronological hang is an old notion.

26.   The old notion that conservative Republicans traditionally sided with the arms industry and liberal Democrats typically called for constraint was out the window.

27.   The old notion that you actually have to achieve something in order to acquire self-esteem is passe.

28.   The old notion that ideas come from top management is changing, Lawrence said.

29.   The old notion that expertise is as important for a president as it is for a surgeon or a physicist is rejected by many voters.

30.   Their hurry to endorse also upholds another old favorite notion about Hispanic voters that some are increasingly beginning to doubt.