Word: notionalism
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Thus the whirlwind of pressure was precipitating some sort of reappraisal. But the day of fundamental change has not yet arrived. The Botha government, even if it has revised its private notion of the national destiny, could have second thoughts. Certainly it will have trouble selling the idea of reform to rightwing South Africans. On previous occasions, South Africa has appeared ready to grant independence to Namibia, the territory also known as South West Africa, which Pretoria has ruled since 1920. Each time, however, the government has reconsidered: three months ago, it installed in Namibia a "transition" government that Pretoria...
...idea works in Chongqing, so the new reasoning goes, it should work elsewhere in China. The notion that factories should be allowed to funnel some of their profits back into expansion, for instance, was first tried in Chongqing. So was another innovation: decreasing the decision-making power of political cadres in plants and increasing the power of local managers. Observes Long Zeyuan, deputy director of the city's economic-system reform commission: "In the old days, all the decisions were made on a political level by people who didn't think about profit or prices or market conditions...
...Eaton's notion of mixing harpsichords, synthesizers, saxophones and electric guitars with a conventional orchestra may at first seem eccentric. Further, his method of microtonal tuning, which he has long advocated, requires singers and instrumentalists to produce quarter-tone intervals, so that an octave is divided into 24 pitches instead of the conventional twelve. Yet each of the disparate elements in the opera has a dramatic function, giving characters or groups of characters distinct musical personalities...
...regulatory environment would become much less favorable to Mediaset under a center-left government, Perretti observes. Other analysts have noted that the tax conditions that made last week's transaction so lucrative might not outlast Berlusconi's time in office. All of which makes more sense than the notion that any political worries about conflicts suddenly made Berlusconi decide to sell. Says pollster Renato Mannheimer: "Conflict of interest is something that matters only to that part of the Italian public that supports the opposition anyway. Those who vote for Berlusconi are entirely indifferent to it." Trying To Generate Interest Paying...
...cover story on the new research into the differences between men's and women's brains debunked the notion that women lack the aptitude for scientific achievement...