Word: notionally
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...year decline. We couldn't agree more with Stengel! There is, indeed, a hidden revolution of citizen involvement that's not reflected in the declining membership rolls of traditional civic groups. But the media typically fail to report on the new forms of civic participation that contradict Putnam's notion of waning social capital. A vast universe of American public life, including citizen-based initiatives in health care, education, government, the media, race relations, economic life and much more--remains largely invisible. The notion of citizen withdrawal from public life feeds on itself: if we accept the notion that others...
...cockpit-voice recorder quickly yielded only a tantalizing enigma: what Francis called a "fraction-of-a-second sound" 111/2 minutes into the flight, followed by silence. This tiny glitch of noise reinforced the notion--privately held by many government officials almost from the beginning--that Flight 800 was brought down by a bomb or even a missile. During a Friday- afternoon news conference, Francis revealed that the NTSB was consulting with investigators of what proved to be bombings of an Air India jet in 1985 and of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...
...spokesman describes the deal as an "intellectual exercise," since neither side had formally agreed to them. Peres and Arafat reportedly had some doubts about the proposed settlement, but felt the understandings might serve as a useful basis for negotiations, said Ibrahim Khreishe, a senior Palestinian Authority official. "The notion that Peres was ready to accept a Palestinian state is not a secret," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "The question is, how accurate is this depiction of the negotiations? Were these talks real negotiation or purely speculative talk? At any rate, Netanyahu will never agree to such a settlement...
...that is a trifling notion to impose on the passengers' families. They are inconsolable; the catastrophe, whatever its origin, has done its worst to them...
...widely accepted is this notion of civic decline that both Bill Clinton and Bob Dole have been exhorting Americans to pull up their socks. (Rhetoric is free; programs cost money. Besides, who isn't for volunteerism?) Clinton has used a series of Executive actions regarding teen smoking, gun sales and truancy as a paternal prod--in effect, making the Federal Government the village patriarch who reminds members of the community of their obligations to one another. Last week Clinton introduced a schoolhouse-repair program, which is meant to spur local investment, not as a public-works effort...