Word: notionalism
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...There are, of course, defenders of the stand-alone model. On Goldman's conference call, CFO David Viniar dismissed the notion that Goldman would be better off with a deposit base, saying that because of regulatory constraints, only a "small portion" of Goldman's business could be funded that way. "We think it's not about the model. It is about the performance of the company," he said...
...radical idea. But, given the problematic state of American public education, we may need some crazy, radical thinking. I doubt that this notion has ever even crossed the mind of Harvard’s admissions office—and that is equally problematic. The point is that everyone—especially a powerhouse like Harvard—should be thinking outside the box about how he, she, or it can turn this problem on its head. This editorial doesn’t need to convince you that we should take this radical measure—only that even...
Interdisciplinary collaboration has become a buzzword of central administrators in recent years because of the notion that the traditional autonomy of Harvard’s schools has hindered growth in interdisciplinary fields such as bioengineering and nanotechnology...
...merit to the rumor, or if the target of the rumor has something to hide. The net result is that uncertainty increases. In experiments, my colleague, Prashant Bordia, and I have found that the no-comment condition results in an increased sense of uncertainty and gives credence to the notion that the [target of the rumor] is attempting to cover something...
...evildoers in the Third Reich couldn't all have been hissing, predatory, nutsy Nazis; they needed the complicity, passive or active, of the "good Germans." That notion spurred Taylor's excellent 1981 play, with Alan Howard as Halder, a liberal professor who is made complicit in the atrocities of the regime through promotions, seduction and his own laissez-faire cowardice. Casting a flinty hero type like Mortensen in the role of a moral weakling seems inspired, but the movie isn't. Its attention to period detail and emotional nuance is lax, plodding, lacking either the grinding power of inevitability...