Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some Republicans to call for his ouster. "O'Neill's been traveling everywhere but Main Street and Wall Street," G.O.P. Congressman Mark Foley of Florida told TIME. "The Administration needs a central figure who can deliver a clear, potent message on the economy." But O'Neill scoffs at the notion that a Treasury Secretary's job should include trying to calm the markets or reassure the public. "I'm a little dubious," O'Neill told TIME, "that in the middle of a hurricane, a soothsayer can make the wind go away...
...idea is that parents are responsible for their charges' leisure time and, having read the warning sticker, will decide if a film is appropriate. That notion is naively anachronistic in an age when the family as a unit of cultural consumption hardly exists: Dad watches ESPN, Mom does Lifetime, Little Bro works his Game Boy Advance, and Kid Sis is a Powerpuff Girl. Besides, children can read too. They know that parents strongly cautioned means kids desperately wanted. The whisper of the forbidden is their siren call...
...clout of local autocrats is undermining Beijing's highest-priority reforms. A Shanghai-based executive for a European sporting-goods company dismisses the notion that China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) will eliminate trade barriers. Even after the WTO agreement kicks in, his company will still have to pay an amount double the current national import tariff to ship his sneakers from Shanghai to the central city of Chongqing, because of protectionist fees imposed by provincial governments. Earlier this year, a U.S. automaker discovered that sending a sedan from Shanghai to northern Ningxia province is more expensive...
...some Republicans to call for his ouster. "O'Neill's been traveling everywhere but Main Street and Wall Street," G.O.P. Congressman Mark Foley of Florida told Time. "The Administration needs a central figure who can deliver a clear, potent message on the economy." But O'Neill scoffs at the notion that a Treasury Secretary's job should include trying to calm the markets or reassure the public. "I'm a little dubious," O'Neill told Time, "that in the middle of a hurricane, a soothsayer can make the wind go away...
Jones also dismissed the notion that the “craft” of journalism would lose significance at the school...