Word: notionalism
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When Franks' rough draft first arrived at the Pentagon nearly a year ago, the plan was to invade Iraq from Kuwait in the south, from Turkey in the north and from Jordan in the west. Rumsfeld couldn't shake the notion that it seemed too familiar. He felt that the U.S. would face a far weaker Iraqi army than the one it crushed 12 years ago--and has bombed incessantly for the past five years. "Despite being told not to do it, [Franks] basically sent up a revised Gulf War I plan. Rumsfeld couldn't believe it," says a senior...
...pictures they received were arresting and regularly heartbreaking: the pomp, circumstance and pageantry so characteristic of the historic solemnities staged by the British monarchy, but with a contemporary difference, both hip and humanizing, that marked Diana's singular imprint on the House of Windsor and on the world's notion of royal behavior...
Drawing upon common sense and selected works from the Western canon, Mansfield defends the old school notion of manliness against the endless deconstruction of post-modern philosophy and the soulless analysis of science...
...notion of multitasking was criticized by Warren and former Law School Dean Robert C. Clark, the panel’s moderator. They said that when people multitask, their ability to reason at a high level is severely impaired...
...context of a vibrant and diverse University. And, in any case, more specific giving also need not preclude giving to Senior Gift.For still others, the principle is whether or not they think Harvard deserves their money. Last year’s Senior Gift Plus campaign was predicated on this notion. “Plus” allowed seniors to withhold their donations until the University divested endowment money from Chinese companies doing business with the Sudanese government. In doing so, Plus turned the Gift on its head, treating donations as leverage to further another good cause instead of as support...