Word: notionalism
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...anyone who has been clinging to the notion that America can win this war the easy way, the fate of Abdul Haq should serve as a powerful antidote. Few knew how to fight in the rugged Afghan steppes and summits better than Haq, a legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords...
...have had it with the notion that we Americans had better be careful or we might make "them" more angry than they already are, and then we'll be in real trouble. There is a grain of truth to it, but I am tired of it. What about my anger? What about my fury? Five thousand Americans were slaughtered without provocation. American foreign policy is not perfect, but it did not cause this hideous display of evil. MICHELLE JACKSON Sacramento, Calif...
...band is seen as over the hill after its members have passed 25. This theme is not lost on the aware listener—after doing the math, one realizes that the band members’ respective ages hover around those of our parents. On “Primitive Notion,” Sumner sings, “It doesn’t take a lot to confuse me / I’m not aware of the passing of time / And I’d like to say to those who accuse me / Would you do it while you look...
...exempted. But when lawmakers figured out that dozens of other drugs could make the same argument as BMS, including products like Pfizer's anti-seizure medication Neurotonin, with revenues of $2.5 billion per year, most realized a fix was needed, and other brand-name drugmakers didn't like the notion of an exemption for BMS. The Senate approved a bill with a provision clarifying that generic drugmakers can sell their version of a drug in an adult form even if the brand- name maker has changed its label by adding new pediatric information. The House bill that passed in committee...
...murky terrain of Afghan politics, however, nothing is ever that cut-and-dried. While the notion of any future governing role for Taliban leaders--even moderate ones--is bitterly opposed by the Northern Alliance and its backers Iran, India and Russia, a touch of Taliban may be an ingredient necessary to satisfy many other interested parties...