Word: notionalism
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...European integration. While E.U. states have largely coordinated their policies on value-added tax and custom duties to smooth the workings of the single market, national governments continue to jealously guard the right to set their own direct taxation of companies and individuals. The very notion of tax "harmonization" is vigorously opposed by some governments, particularly Britain and the new member states in Eastern Europe where rates are lowest; the latter see harmonization as a code word for higher taxes. The result is a patchwork of sometimes widely divergent policies that tend to treat domestic operations differently from international ones...
...actively search for the courses that will change the way we think about ourselves and the world, the essential question looms—in only eight semesters, how do you construct a liberal arts education with just a course catalog, a CUE Guide and a vague notion of what you need to know...
...says “zieg heil and “kill the fags” in his songs but doesn’t mean it, except for ironically. Gets snotty ‘bout the government and keeps trying to roll with the media’s unsupported notion that American Idiot is somehow a political album. Amerie’s “One Thing” is better because the guitars sound like guitars instead of cardboard...
...Common opinion says that [the frequency of] drinking games has increased significantly,” says Paul J. Barreira, a psychiatry professor and director of Harvard University Health Services’ Department of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling, who added there is no data to support that notion...
...hard to get a notion of what Harvard is all about. I’ve been here seven months and I’m still trying to figure it out,” said Charles C. Young...