Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have Governors who want mothers sleeping on grates? No." Could it be that giving the poor less is a way of giving them more? Daniel Bell, professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard, speaks for the skeptics: "These things have real cultural roots. They take generational time to solve. The notion of taking the poor off welfare as a sort of cold bath is nonsense. I'm not arguing for the current situation. No one would. But nobody knows what is going to work. Why take a plunge in the dark? The oldest piece of conservative wisdom is to do things...
...electronics to the future of Sony. He hammered home the point again last week in a statement declaring that "there is a definite linkage of hardware and software. Our companies will work together to maximize our business opportunities. That's Sony's big advantage." To further buttress this notion, Idei said, the heads of Sony's U.S. film, music and electronics businesses will for the first time sit together on the executive committee that oversees the company's American operations...
Even the widely accepted notion that the Patriarchs were mythical figures has been challenged. Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen of the University of Liverpool offered what has been called an "extraordinary demonstration" in Biblical Archaeology Review earlier this year that the stories about Abraham are plausible. Drawing on nonbiblical records, Kitchen argued that everything from the quoted price of slaves to the style of warfare to the laws of inheritance in Abraham's day is amazingly consistent with the Bible accounts...
...liberal camp, populated largely by Democrats, believes that there is no symbol of our national unity and sovereignty so important that it should be deemed sacred. In fact, the notion of a sacred national symbol conflicts, they say, with part of what makes America special in the first place. A flag-burning amendment devalues both the symbol and what is symbolized: part of what makes the flag worthy of respect is the fact that we have the right to burn...
Khine, who is a Crimson editor, defended the notion of an inter-ethnic center, saying the new proposal has broad-based, multi-ethnic support...