Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moral obligation of all Americans to support generous levels of legal immigration. This country was founded on the notion of liberty and freedom for all. The hopes for streets of gold provided by economic freedom; for the open practice of private beliefs permitted by religious freedom; for the ability to speak one's mind and act upon it through democratic government--these are the ideals which fueled past immigration and still power the citizens we welcome to our shores today...
...extensive discussions with the First Lady's chief of staff, Maggie Williams, and met her press secretary, Lisa Caputo, and White House adviser George Stephanopoulos. By late June, having received no definitive answer from the White House, I broached the possibility that I didn't feel comfortable with the notion that I needed the Clintons' permission to undertake this work, and might well begin it on my own. As I had told Mrs. Clinton, I was drawn to the story as much for what it would say about our culture, values and political processes as for what it would reveal...
Asked whether he would ever consider running for Governor or Senator, Forbes scoffs at the notion. "People would just assume it's a stepping stone, and they don't like that." In other words, run for the office you really want--which is just what Forbes might do again four years from...
...which actually implicated increased productivity as one of the main reasons for massive downsizing and economic instability. In the first of the seven articles, the paper reports, "The steady and pronounced progress of technology has kept taking tasks from human beings and giving them to machines, undermining the bedrock notion of mass employment." It cites such examples as General Motors, which can make as many cars today with 185,000 fewer employees than in the 1970s. "Behind every A.T.M. flutter the ghost of three human tellers," the Times wrote ominously...
...economic nonsense without realizing that his criticisms of current trade policy do have some basis in fact. Certainly, full-blown protectionism would inflict great harm on the American economy. But that does not necessarily imply that free trade is the answer. Rather, the United States should discard the obsolete notion that free trade is the best alternative in every case and instead selectively engage in protectionist practices both to force other nations to lower their own trade barriers and to benefit U.S. companies competing in imperfect markets...