Word: notionally
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...Forbes' plan would do little to disabuse taxpayers of the notion that the rich get a better deal from the tax system. Under his proposal, an investor in Boca Raton, Florida, who racks up $500,000 in income from bonds, stock dividends and capital gains would pay no income tax at all, while a teacher in Detroit earning $50,000 would pay $6,290. Because Forbes has yet to release all the details of his proposal, it is impossible to evaluate how it would affect middle-class Americans. However, an analysis of Representative Dick Armey's 17% flat tax done...
...giant dome, where residents would be whooshed from skyscraper to skyscraper on a high-speed monorail. As Walt envisioned it, no retirees would be allowed to live in his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and nobody could own property. It was to be a paradise of young renters, a notion that surely would have been vigorously opposed by the senior-citizen lobby. But Disney died in 1966, before the plans were drawn...
Indeed, while most people cling to the notion that evolution works its magic over millions of years, scientists are realizing that biological change often occurs in sudden fits and starts. And none of those fitful starts was more dramatic, more productive or more mysterious than the one that occurred shortly after Erwin's wormlike creature slithered through the primordial seas. All around the world, in layers of rock just slightly younger than that Erwin discovered, scientists have found the mineralized remains of organisms that represent the emergence of nearly every major branch in the zoological tree. Among them: bristle worms...
...powerful reflections rendered in these works make the title of Smith's exhibition--"This work is my identity"--all the more appropiate. Smith's simultaneous originality and centrality among abstract artists led him to problematize the notion of identity itself...
Catalyst? Didn't play all that great in a blowout win? Are there even bigger things on the Crimson horizon? Is such a notion possible for the Harvard men's basketball team...