Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniels questioned whether that notion is still valid, "or have technical developments combined to...make this rough draft so rough that it's not trustworthy...
...snake-oil promises, the Zhirinovsky whirlwind offered something new for the people of Shchelkovo. His listeners seemed genuinely charmed by his sense of humor, his flair for dramatic gestures, his bravado. This is, after all, the first time many of them had actually seen their elected representative, and the notion that he seemed to be taking an interest in their affairs clearly disarmed them...
...family entered into his thinking: "You have to ask yourself if chain-smoking parents in a trailer park is the most conducive environment for a sick child." O'Neill feels strongly that such considerations have no bearing on the decision to offer treatment; he also disputes the notion that the cost of Angela's care was out of line. Dr. Alan Fleischman, professor of pediatrics at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, agrees. "Interventions of this kind for newborns with congenital anomalies are far from rare in the U.S.," he says. "Expenditures of $1 million are hardly...
...fact, this effort is unlikely to be any more effective than the agenda that came out of Bucharest 20 years ago. Reason: the principal assumption underlying decades of efforts to halt the population explosion turns out to be questionable at best. This is the "demographic transition," the notion that people will have fewer children as their sense of well-being increases. It has been embraced by such strange bedfellows as the Reagan Administration and Vice President Al Gore because it offers the bland assurance that a nation can achieve the aims of family planning in the course of economic development...
Students say interracial relationships can carry a social stigma, including director Spike Lee's notion--developed in the movie "Jungle Fever-that people date interraciallybecause of an idealized notion or curiosity aboutanother race...