Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voyeuristic media too often justifies its feeding frenzies with the notion that Clinton's exploits are somehow important and relevant. If Clinton's personal life does effect his ability to promote his legislative agenda on issues like welfare reform (which he has now postponed until 1995), it will be due to the media's self-fulfilling prophecies...
What idea is more beguiling than the notion of lightsome spirits, free of time and space and human weakness, hovering between us and all harm? To believe in angels is to allow the universe to be at once mysterious and benign. Even people who refuse to believe in them may long to be proved wrong...
...wrote Miracle of the Rose and The Thief's Journal was no sunny gay poet like Walt Whitman. When he celebrated himself, it was a tangle of paradoxes he pointed to. His chief delight was his own abjection. His notion of Utopia was a cellblock of masters and servants, preferably locked in a bear hug. He left little record of how his novels, written mostly in prison, developed. Though White doesn't penetrate all Genet's mysteries -- such as how a foster child who spent much of his adolescence in a reformatory became one of the supreme stylists in French...
...long ago, means testing was a notion embraced mostly by small political journals and policy wonks swimming in think tanks. But respectability came as the bipartisan cut-the-deficit Concord Coalition and investment banker Pete Peterson pushed schemes that would trim federal subsidies in gradual steps for families earning above about $40,000 a year. The new mood is reflected by Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who declared recently, "Means testing in selected areas is an idea whose time has come...
...space-station plan, it turned out, would contain the once radical notion of asking the Russians to join the project, which also includes Japan, Canada, Italy and the European Space Agency. The formal invitation went to Moscow last week. And the revamping of NASA fell to agency administrator Daniel Goldin, the ex-chief of the space division at TRW and one of only two Bush appointees to survive the change of Administrations. Goldin's brusque style has made him few friends either inside or outside the agency, but being liked is not the point. Admits Goldin...