Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became a journalist because of John Conway," Rosenfeld said. "Through his own example, he introduced me to the notion that an individual's sensibilities could come to terms with the cruel world outside the comfortable cocoon in which many of us had lived," he said...
Anyone? Even a third-party candidate like, say, Colin Powell, who'd probably be as leery as anyone else about the notion of privatizing Social Security? "Maybe," says Michael Steinhardt, the hedge-fund guru who chairs the Progressive Foundation, which will publish the manifesto. Steinhardt is one of about two dozen wealthy Democrats behind the project, a roster that includes entertainment mogul Barry Diller; investment bankers Steve Rattner, Felix Rohatyn and Barrie Wigmore; and entrepreneurs Mitch Hart, who started Electronic Data Systems with Ross Perot, and Sandy Robertson, who assembled much of the California support so vital to Clinton...
Given the current state of pro sports economics, Take Me Out to the Ball Game needs a little updating. And so does the antediluvian notion that fan support is the key to franchise success. A ball club needs not only gate receipts and a good media contract but also steady revenue from stadium advertising, sweetheart concession deals and, especially, luxury boxes. "Luxury boxes are critical these days," says Craig Simon, director of sports marketing for the Chicago consulting firm of Frankel & Co. "A stadium that doesn't have them is in danger of losing its team...
...discovery of the sophisticated cave paintings in the south of France and the announcement that they are the oldest ever found should indeed throw "the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question," as suggested by a French official [SCIENCE, June 19]. Anthropology will remain in the kindergarten of its understanding of man and his works until it comes to grips with the prospect that if the flood of Noah was the one responsible for the sinking of the continent of Atlantis, then the survivors (who may well have been forced to live in caves) were the remnants...
...publish the document based on its merit. Instead, the papers must also contend with public pressure and the thought that human lives may be affected by their decision. If the newspapers are to succumb to this pressure, more lives may be at stake but as a whole, our notion of freedom stands to lose much more...