Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Five weeks and out, as I said I would," Davis said. "At first I entertained the notion [of running], but in the absence of building a coalition in the last five weeks I see nothing else I can contribute...
...Vice-President Allison L. Moore '97 dismissed the notion that the BSA had asked Martin to speak "to alienate or to offend Hillel. "We want to have open dialogue and continued relations with the Hillel," she said...
...Democrats harbor the highly ambitious notion of prying out the Republicans two years from now. Failing that, they can hope that the Republicans mean it when they promise term limits that apply to themselves. In a town where everybody and everything seems to be moving, the upheaval adds up to even more business for real estate agent Cathie Gill. "Once people come to Washington, they tend to stay," she says. But for a while, it will be tough for a large bunch of Democrats to keep paying their mortgages...
Sony invested $5 billion to buy Columbia and TriStar Pictures back in 1989, propelled by a romantic notion that constructors of compact discs and , television sets could marry makers of music and movies. Last week Sony sobered up. The firm took a $2.7 billion write-off -- one of the steepest in Hollywood history -- on its money-losing film studio and reported a second-quarter loss of $3.2 billion. "If we didn't do it once and for all now, we would continue to face losses in our entertainment business," said Tsunao Hashimoto, Sony's executive deputy president. That...
...frustrating that in the first two seasons TNG writers came and went like Tribbles as Roddenberry assiduously rewrote nearly every script to conform to his notion of futuristic collegiality and his distaste for warfare. He had written for such popular shows as Dragnet and Have Gun Will Travel, and candidly envisioned the original Star Trek series as a "Wagon Train to the stars." In his quintessentially '60s view, the final frontier may have been full of hostile Klingons and dangerous Romulans, but they were generally susceptible to a pep talk -- only occasionally augmented by a punch in the nose -- from...