Word: notionalism
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...telling any one of the fairy tales that people who are committing slow suicide always tell themselves and each other: that they are happy with their choices, that they have no regrets, that when your time is up it's all to do with the archaic cosmological notion called fate and nothing to do with...
Brabeck pooh-poohs the notion that a company should focus tightly on its core competency. Nestle's big challenge, he says, "is that we have to be able to learn how to get operational efficiency with a relatively complex business structure. This is what I think real management is all about. The other thing is much too easy." Rather than narrow its focus, he believes that a well-managed and flexibly organized consumer-goods company can sell dog food and ice cream--as well as coffee, water and candy--and gain advantages in marketing, purchasing and distribution over more specialized...
China, Japan and others welcome the chance to scale back their U.S. holdings, but even the hint of a sale could send the dollar tumbling - as happened earlier this month when a Chinese official suggested China might shift some of its currency reserves to offset the "weak" dollar. The notion that the days of the dollar's dominance are numbered is, in fact, increasingly popular. In September, Alan Greenspan, former chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve, said it's "absolutely conceivable that the euro will replace the dollar as [the] reserve currency, or will be traded as an equally important...
...than 55 houses and stores onto log rails greased with laundry soap and used horses to pull the buildings to a new town site. The Move, which is commemorated at the Katonah library with a diorama, took six months and is still talked about with pride. "There's this notion that we're not like everyplace else," says Deirdre Courtney-Batson, a historian who lives in Katonah. "People have a real sense of ownership...
...Washington triumph by using the notorious Bush boast "Mission Accomplished". Other French reports were more pointed on how Franco-American policy views often diverge beneath the new veneer of improved relations - something U.S media inadvertently noted. The Washington Post, for example, headlined "Sarkozy Backs Bush on Iran" - a notion that sounds good now, but which will become untenable if the White House seriously proposes military strikes that Sarkozy has previously termed "catastrophic." The New York Times underlined a conclusion that leaves many in France dumb-founded: Sarkozy's Congressional acclaim demonstrated, "France was forgiven for opposing the American...