Word: notionally
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...Hamas during the past year has become embroiled in debate over whether to suspend military operations and focus on taking a share of the power now available under self-rule. Hamas has always been principally a political organization, delivering medical, educational, religious and welfare services to the public. The notion was to await a better day to destroy Israel and meanwhile participate in the game. Then Israel killed Ayyash by planting a bomb in his mobile telephone. That gave the hard-liners what they saw as justification to act. They were moved not only by vengeful anger...
...notion that better-funded charities can handle the job, meanwhile, may be fanciful. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the Senate's welfare wise men, says that 30 years ago a proposal like Alexander's might have been possible. But no more. "Sixty-seven percent of the kids in Detroit are on AFDC in the course of a single year," he says. "The Catholic bishops will tell you they can't take care of that." Worse, Alexander's plan could balloon the deficit. His charity tax credit, much of which rewards people for gifts they'd make anyway...
...schedule. "Barry came up, and we shot the breeze for a while. And then he leaned in close and said, very casually, 'We're going to announce that we're putting The Simpsons against The Cosby Show.' It made me feel sick to my stomach." At the time, the notion of scheduling Fox's most successful show opposite one of the most popular TV shows of all time seemed foolhardy to many. As it happened, The Simpsons held its own and went on to become a cornerstone of Fox's schedule...
...notion of a "rise" in religion is nebulous. How, exactly, has religion "risen" or "increased?" Can the thing religion perform such feats...
There is some evidence against David's notion that in the eyes of younger people everyone born before the Inchon landing melds together into a single blob of undifferentiated old coot. There is, for instance, my favorite theory about why Ronald Reagan, the most successful oldie-but-goodie candidate in recent times, did so poorly in the Iowa caucuses in 1980, compared with 1976--a theory quickly forgotten after he reclaimed his microphone and his future in New Hampshire...