Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fresh ideas, just stricter oversight of loans, more criticism of bad behavior, greater caution toward leaders. No one, not even firebrand Jesse Helms, who is about to launch Senate hearings, would stop all aid or cut Russia adrift. Candidates like George W. Bush don't disagree with the basic notion of engaging Russia either, so he's left to look for traction with the mushy "I'd manage it better" argument. Even the most skeptical voter can see that it is not in the national interest to let Russia fail and that the U.S. has nothing to gain by abandoning...
...withstood the challenge of the tour's freshman 50- and 51-year-olds who have won more than a third of all senior tournaments, and he scoffs at the notion that age 55 is the limit at which a golfer can compete for senior-tour leadership. "That's hogwash," Irwin says. "The age of 55 is now going to be pushed to 56, 57 and 58, because players are more in shape and more attuned to the keen competition...
...they set out with a vague notion to bring the kitchen into the dining hall...
...bureaucracy," says Ray Cortines, a Democrat and former schools chief in New York City and San Francisco. If states feel pressured to avoid such embarrassment, Bush's plan could jump-start reforms at troubled schools. And while the left loathes the idea of vouchers, some experts think Bush's notion that dollars should follow poor kids could be the first step toward better targeting Title I cash, which now gets unfairly diverted via political horse trading to schools in more affluent districts...
...Karmazin, a shareholder-first kind of guy, like Redstone--and one reason Redstone could dump his own team. He praises Karmazin's "easy, nonarrogant" style and bristles at the notion that he can't work with a strong No. 2. "There's only one time it didn't work out," he says, referring to former heir apparent Frank Biondi...