Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past attempts to reform Social Security, Republicans examined last week's advisory-council report with barbecue tongs and mitts. But Senator Bob Kerrey, a Democrat from Nebraska, immediately submitted legislation that would give workers more control over how their Social Security contributions are invested. Kerrey dismissed as "condescending" the notion that the average American can't be trusted to invest his own money. "Millions of middle-class Americans," he observed, "are investing successfully today," and their numbers are growing rapidly. Most of them are prudent enough to shift their savings gradually from the volatile stock market to stable short-term...
...Like Buffett, he remains unaffected, wandering Manhattan and Seattle without an entourage or driver. Nestled into a banquette one Sunday night at 44, a fashionable Manhattan restaurant, he is talking volubly when another diner approaches. Gates pulls inward, used to people who want his autograph or to share some notion about computers. But the diner doesn't recognize him and instead asks him to keep his voice down. Gates apologizes sheepishly. He seems pleased to be regarded as a boyish cutup rather than a celebrity...
...someday replicate that on a machine." Earthly life is carbon based, he notes, and computers are silicon based, but that is not a major distinction. "Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system." The notion, he admits, is a bit frightening, but he jokes that it would also be cheating. "It's like reverse-engineering someone else's product in order to solve a challenge...
...questioned attorneys for both Clinton and Paula Jones as they heard arguments over whether or not Clinton should be allowed to delay Jones' sexual harassment suit. Justice Antonin Scalia challenged the assertion of Clinton attorney Robert Bennett that the President was too busy to defend himself, telling Bennett: "The notion that he doesn't have a minute to spare is not credible." But Scalia seemed sympathetic to the heart of Bennett's argument: that under the Constitution's separation of powers, the nation's hundreds of federal judges should not have the power to haul a sitting president into court...
...dangerous notions are quickly emerging. First is the insistence of the Likud government on practically re-negotiating the Oslo Accords--an agreement that was signed by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, not on behalf of his Labor Party, but on behalf of the Israeli government. Such de facto renegation of signed treaties projects an image of Israel as a country which lacks credibility. Second is the idea that at the end of the 20th century, territorial claims can be made based on ancient religious texts. Imagine the havoc that would wreck Europe, or for that matter most...