Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sites such as the New York Times will electronically send out headlines based upon a reader's interests. Similarly, Amazon.com will suggest books based upon your past purchases. But Google doesn't care so much about your surfing habits. The search technology is predicated on the notion that what gets hit gets served. So Google's search results favor sites that get the most repeat traffic. Call it editorial judgment by dint of popular demand...
...franchisees and that discounting helps the corporation at the franchisees' expense, since McDonald's takes in royalties on total sales, even as individual owners are stuck with shrinking profit margins. Though stressing that McDonald's will no longer shy away from forcing out bad owner-operators, Roberts dismisses the notion of scaling back McDonald's presence in the U.S. Says he: "We've got to be accessible to customers...
Would the Quincy Junior Common Room be open? Would the TV turn on (mind you, I live in Quincy)? And, most importantly, would the room be free of conscientious objectors? I trembled at the notion of puritanical types who might object to watching a dysfunctional family of murderous and blasphemous crack-peddling Mafiosi...
...John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), considered a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2004 I don’t know why, in the richest nation on the face of the earth, we don’t challenge the notion of 42 million Americans without health care and engage in the real work of providing health insurance for every American...
...franchisees and that discounting helps the corporation at the franchisees' expense, since McDonald's takes in royalties on total sales, even as individual owners are stuck with shrinking profit margins. Though stressing that McDonald's will no longer shy away from forcing out bad owner-operators, Roberts dismisses the notion of scaling back McDonald's presence in the U.S. Says he: "We've got to be accessible to customers...