Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...customers and local communities. But in the '80s some of these stakes were crushed in the machinery of mergers or restructuring. Cities lost powerful corporate allies, that were relegated to subsidiary status by headquarters in distant places. In industries such as textiles and steel, plant shutdowns destroyed forever the notion that the company takes care of its own. Steel towns in Pennsylvania, like Duquesne, collapsed when their blast furnaces went cold. Those were thought to be singular events, industrial catastrophes that wouldn't be repeated. But in the harsh global economy, layoffs will not go away...
...success of HP and other such companies belies the notion that businesses that are socially responsible can't also be fiscally responsible. In fact, the opposite is true. A business can't do much good if it isn't any good at what it does...
...Nastase, who clearly isn't going to flatter his way into the job. "I want to be the first Romanian who didn't lie." Nastase, a little chubbier and wrinklier than when he won every Grand Slam title except Wimbledon, but with the same swinging '70s hairstyle, got the notion to run after a friend persuaded him to join the ruling Social Democracy Party last September. "In the beginning it was a joke," he told Time Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. But now Nastase is addressing the campaign with the full force of his misanthropic charm...
Some assert that the prospect of wealth and social respect was one of their main incentives for attending Harvard. Others hesitate at the notion of class transformation--and what some see as the abandonment of culture and past...
...Keillor favors reality, by which he means something other than the corporate world. Sure, the life he describes at the re-engineered Amalgamated Potato stinks, but (news flash, Garrison) bad smells are real. And what does he offer instead? The romantic notion that life in the wild where the caribou roam is better. Well, he also invented a town where all the children are above average. If all those "drones" with salaries "in the mid five digits" he describes flee the corporate world, who will be left to pay Keillor for spinning yarns and reading poetry on public radio...