Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everything starts with an interested donor, idealism and the notion of generosity," Reardon says. "But there is an education process we use to try to get those people to give...
...hired a House historian who thought Nazism should be taught in schools. That's good sound Republicanism: instead of condoms, let's distribute SS armbands. Newt dumped her, but in the nicest way: he visited her and served her with divorce papers. And how about term limits, that great notion of an electorate that can't trust themselves to vote the rascals out? Old Guard Republicans must love that! Newt's in his ninth term, so he's way over the limit. And Senator Thurmond -- wasn't he the Founding Father who filibustered against the Declaration of Independence...
Smith dismisses the notion that competition has caused many small businesses to close. Instead, she says high rents around the Square have hurt small merchants...
...states are better able to experiment in search of novel public-policy solutions. But most public-policy dilemmas of today do not await novel solutions. They await the simple will to make unpleasant tradeoffs between our desire for government services and our desire not to pay for them. The notion that there is some novel solution out there waiting to be discovered -- one that avoids the need for such trade-offs -- is a childish fantasy...
Ryder won't fade soon. Adult roles are imminent; she'll fill the characters as well as the costumes. Once waif thin, she now has a figure so womanly that, after it was on show in a Vogue pictorial, she was accused of having had breast implants. The very notion propels her into a verbal dither. "I'm way too chicken to go under the knife," she says. "The thought of someone touching your breast with something metal is like the most -- it's so -- I mean -- it's horrifying to even think about...