Word: notionalism
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...Verba added that he is very excited about the project’s ability to fight the growing notion that “all the world’s knowledge” can be found on websites...
...Katrina has shown the incredible weakness of the notion that you can have weak players in key spots because the only people who matter are in the White House," said a lobbyist who is tight with the Administration. "You can't have a Mike Brown at FEMA unless you can guarantee that there isn't going to be a catastrophe...
...assumed judicial and regulatory powers that the Constitution assigns to the states. Proponents of states' rights, who had felt so marginalized at the court in the 1960s and '70s, exulted at Rehnquist's devolution of power. One measure of Rehnquist's influence is that he helped refine the contemporary notion of a conservative as someone for whom deference to the states means antipathy toward federal social programs...
...notion of installing a collection in a thematic, multimedia way has been percolating at least since New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) flirted briefly with the approach, beginning in 1999 with the show "ModernStarts." As a way to summarize the nonlinear development of 20th century art, MOMA divided its extensive collection into three categories: People, Places and Things. Critics called the series handsome and provocative, as well as simplistic and awful. It was also the final show in the old MOMA building and a laboratory for installations in the new one, an elegant $425 million structure that...
...newly redrafted ethical guidelines of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians urge members to refuse free drug samples and gifts. But working party chairman Paul Komesaroff rejects the notion of drug companies as out-and-out bad guys. Where Angell decries a grubby alliance between industry and many doctors, Komesaroff sees a complex relationship that needs to be untangled only partially, and with the greatest care. Angell, he says, is an "effective polemicist who's made an important contribution to raising these issues ... but there has to be an effective dialogue between industry and the profession because each depends...