Word: notionally
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What's more, the notion that tying the dollar to gold is needed to keep inflation low is simply false, mainstream economists say, and makes Forbes' passion almost inexplicable. Ever since Fed chairman Paul Volcker, whom Forbes calls an "obtuse man," wrung double-digit inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s, yearly price increases have averaged 3% to 3.5%. Yet despite this climate, Forbes called on the Treasury Department last year to issue bonds that were indexed to inflation to eliminate this unacceptable risk to principal...
...firm that has helped finance dozens of new companies, including Netscape and Pixar. Doerr says Kleiner Perkins clients have created 150,000 new jobs in the past five years alone and have reinforced America's technological edge. "Some people refer to [IPOs] as a game," Doerr says. "But the notion that an entrepreneur can have a big idea and gain financial independence for his family is at the very heart of the American system of fair play." Echoing that sentiment is Dan Case, chairman of Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco venture-capital and investment-banking firm that helped manage...
STEVE FORBES' CONTROVERSIAL NOTION...
...sexual revolution came AIDS. Once the realization had sunk into the human psyche that sex can be life-threatening, the nature of relationships in our society had to change. And there were two main roads our culture could follow. The first was to return to the 1950s notion of postponed intimacy. The second was to retain sex as part of the dating scene, but to make relationships monogamous. And this is what appears to have happened. Quite simply, the behavior of the most technologically advanced and socially complex civilization the world has ever known has been forced towards emotional...
Gone too is the notion that a regimen of N.B.A. basketball would weaken Johnson and accelerate the onset of AIDS. Says Dr. Michael Mellman, Johnson's primary physician and the man who originally informed him of his condition: "We still do not know how much a body can take. But for Earvin, we're talking about returning to what used to be normal...