Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rival campaigns immediately scrambled to prove that Dean's breakthrough meant little. "Nobody has ever doubted the intensity of Dean's support," says Jim Jordan, campaign manager for Kerry. "The question is, Can he broaden it?" Dean, meanwhile, is quick to downplay the notion that his rise is only a cybersurge: "The Internet is a tool, not a campaign platform...
...gatekeeper," he says. "I don't dare ask my boss, the public, to sit in judgment of somebody that I don't think deserves to die. That's why they elect me, to exercise that judgment and not bother them." Buried in that philosophy is something radical--the notion that the jury system, as it's currently constructed, can't be trusted to send only the guilty to death row. Most prosecutors wouldn't embrace that philosophy, which is why it may take an Earle, not a knight, to slay the demon of error...
...very notion that a fluffy summer action movie should be headed by America's most beautiful serious actor (or seriously beautiful one) paints a flummoxed smile on the faces of Depp's admirers. This is, after all, a film based on a Disney theme-park attraction--not a cool thrill machine like the Tower of Terror or a camp classic like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride but the staid Pirates of the Caribbean. For this project, Depp put aside the nutsy-greatsy auteurs of his past (Tim Burton, John Waters, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch) to team up with Gore Verbinski...
...notion is to have a variety of fellows working on all different projects, but also to have focused and sustained interaction and planned interaction,” said Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust. “Many other institutes for advanced study do the same thing, they have special little areas...
Dumb ideas never suffer a bear market on Wall Street. And one of the most durable of all dumb business ideas is the notion that investors have to overhaul their portfolios every time Congress tinkers with the tax laws. Now that the Job and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 has reduced the maximum tax rate on dividends from 38.6% to 15%, Wall Street is flogging dividend-paying stocks as if they were the best way to pump up performance since Viagra...