Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were the principles upon which the decision in Lochner v. New York was based? Do surrogate motherhood contracts involve commodification of children? These questions are not meant for half-answers, quasi-truths and suggestions; they demand rigorous, directed, investigation and analysis. After all, governments themselves are predicated on some notion on what is right or what is good (sometimes for a small group, sometimes for the masses.) Studying them therefore implies examination and evaluation of the value judgments made by the philosophers, theorists, presidents and politicians who dominate or direct a given form of governance. Government sections...
Establishing such a modus vivendi will take political will on both sides, requiring each to get past the stereotypes of the cold war. For our part, that means rejecting the notion that predatory behavior is somehow encoded in Russian genes and that Russia is simply a stunted U.S.S.R. itching to return to its former size and ways. Similarly, the Russians must overcome the suspicion that America's real strategy is to weaken their country, even divide...
...This created his key message: "Balancing the budget in a way that protects our values and defends Medicare, Medicaid, education and the environment." So often was this mantra used that the team referred to it as simply M2E2. Clinton had arrived at a golden synthesis, bridging the traditional Democratic notion of protecting entitlements with the New Democratic position of fiscal responsibility. Of course, he did it through sleight of hand. His budget proposals didn't come to grips with spiraling Medicare costs and deferred the most painful cuts until after his second term...
Just as he was finding his target, Dole abandoned the drug message and switched to the charge that Clinton was a "spend-and-tax liberal." The Clintonites were relieved. "With the drug spots," says Penn, "Dole was getting some traction by painting Clinton as a social liberal. The notion that he was an economic liberal was less effective because the economy is sound...
...street. I was in a huge traffic jam, going in the wrong direction. Ahead of me was some sort of viaduct, choked with traffic. I couldn't get over the notion that it was the bridge to the 21st century...