Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, there is the notion that this type of public revelation is always the hardest to make, and that Diana made a gutsy decision. To this, one has to respond that Diana did not reveal anything that most people did not already know. We were aware of her bulimia, of her infidelity and of the difficulties of her former life. What Diana accomplished, in essence, was offering the public the first willing player with whom to identify, someone open to any sympathy and who, in her admitted bid for popular support, was, in fact, garnering it as a political tool...
While Clinton's performance may look better than it did at first, many experts doubt that much has changed. "I don't see any systemic improvement in the Administration," says Brent Scowcroft, who served as George Bush's National Security Adviser. "The notion that they've been through their shakedown and now have a smoothly running machine just isn't true. Even when they do things right they don't manage it well...
...Christopher had given his word to the Chinese Foreign Minister just a short time earlier that the visa would not be granted (Clinton changed course because of congressional pressure). Months of difficulties with China followed this incident. Russians also are feeling let down by America. They had an unrealistic notion of riding to prosperity with the West's help, but U.S. assistance--$6.6 billion in grants and $6.9 billion in loans to the former Soviet Union since 1991--has been less than Washington appeared to have promised...
...scenes dealmaking at 60 Minutes disturbed many journalists at CBS. Paying consulting fees to outside "experts" who help on stories is not uncommon in TV news; but some questioned whether, in this case, the payment compromised both Wigand and CBS. What most appalled some at CBS News was the notion that 60 Minutes would give a source veto power over whether to run his interview. One senior CBS producer expressed outrage that the 60 Minutes journalists would go on talk shows and cloak themselves in the First Amendment when they had cut such a deal--a deal, he asserted, that...
...where organized crime was free to practice its amoral rites and where that miracle cure for the terminally outcast--sudden, improbable wealth--was always a real possibility. There's something a little too easy in this conceit, although there's good black comedy in it too--especially in the notion that it is the tragic flaw of hubris that eventually robs Sam and Nicky of their place in paradise. The former, apparently unaware of Bugsy Siegel's fate, aspires to celebrity-mobster status; the latter ratchets up his murder rate to crime-spree levels; both fatally attract the attention...