Word: notionalism
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...year lease at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, which they moved into in July 2000. A Gothic church replete with vertical lines of tracery and paneling as well as a gorgeous stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany may be an unlikely venue for a dance troupe. However, the notion is not entirely alien to dance. The Judson Church in New York’s Greenwich Village was the place choreographers Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs and Twyla Tharp collaborated to help create postmodern dance. Indeed, once pews have been removed, churches with their expansive nave and proscenium stage are ideal...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shrugged off any notion that Kim's confession augurs real change. "I don't think there's any way in the world anyone could say it's a good sign," he said. In the short term, hard-liners inside the Administration will resist rewarding Kim for giving up weapons. While the U.S. is not prepared to fight a three-front war, there are plenty of Bush advisers who believe North Korea's arsenal can't be dismantled without regime change--and they will come back to the argument once Iraq is behind them...
...professionally ambitious first of all. They are patriotic, athletic, altruistic, inspiring and very good at planning ahead. ROTC upperclassmen don’t seem smug so much as self-assured when thinking about the job market. The recruiting nightmares and vocational anguish of their peers is a foreign notion to them. But Persons puts it in perspective. She says traveling to MIT isn’t really such a hardship at all. “When you consider the kinds of things you’ll have to give up on active duty,” she says...
...that it exists at all: a Fifth Avenue building completely devoted to the history of sex. Patrons will be impressed by the snazzy multimedia presentations, such as an interactive computer map of early 20th century cathouses, with nice little Zagat-style reviews (the "nice but pushy" madam's "notion of submission is to keep you waiting for an hour"). And visitors will find the stories of Manhattan sex scandals good reading in a tabloidy, microfiche kind of way, but the exhibit can get awfully soporific, considering that it's about sex in New York City. There's a cover from...
...McPeak's notion was to produce a smart bomb that could be wedded to the constantly orbiting global-positioning-system (GPS) satellites so that bad visibility would not hamper targeting. His idea became a reality in 1998, when the Pentagon bought its first JDAM--joint direct-attack munition--from Boeing. By scrapping complicated procurement rules for this project, the Pentagon was able to keep the price of a JDAM at $27,000, pocket change compared with the $1 million price tag on a single cruise missile like the ones used in the Gulf War. JDAM tail kits are fastened onto...