Word: notionalism
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...early entrants to the China market have learned, the notion that 1.3 billion consumers are waiting to buy your widgets is a mirage. More than 400 million people live in China's cities, where they have, on average, an annual disposable income that equals about $760. That's not nearly enough to buy a Xiali automobile for $9,600 or even a $145 mobile handset. The real targets: about 3 million Chinese who have assets worth more than $120,000, plus 15 million who have more than $60,000. This Chinese middle class's disposable income grew about 7% last...
...ZIONIST PLOT THEORY In a notion that ranks somewhere below the "Israel was responsible for Sept. 11" and "Paul is dead" theories, Saudi Arabia's English-language Arab News sniffed whiffs of a Zionist conspiracy behind Bush's accident. If the pretzel had long-term health effects on the President, the paper noted, "a troubled White House's foreign policy will click back on its traditional Zionist track...
Such an arrangement would represent a dedication by the University to the idea that all Harvard students (and, moreover, all physically capable U.S. citizens) ought to be able to serve their country. This notion of inclusion in service is, in fact, the very sentiment that underlies the issue of ROTC funding. Therefore, should the University choose to extend funding, it ought either to fight “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by lobbying the Department of Defense and Congress, or it should fund a group that will...
...angry at young people with no notion of what poverty is treating the whole matter as an intellectual exercise. Fact: Full-time custodians at Harvard earn such a low wage they are eligible for food stamps. How much more basic does the math have...
...cholesterol and may make the blood less sticky. Scientists are fairly confident that garlic also has antibacterial and antifungal powers. Preliminary reports even suggest that garlic may block the parasites that cause malaria. On perhaps less firm footing is the theory that allyl sulfides can stop tumor growth, a notion so far borne out only in the petri dish...