Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some area students are taking the notion quite seriously. Fox said that between 50 and 100 men have already responded. The prospective donors will all undergo a screening process lasting about two months, including medical and social evaluations...
Baker does his own research at home in Leesburg, Virginia, and will journey to Boston several times a year to tape the introductions. The programs imported for Masterpiece Theatre run in Britain with no introduction; the notion of a host is American. "We like to be told what's coming," says Baker. "It reassures us." An advance look at his first efforts reveals that the onscreen Baker is indeed reassuring -- an intelligent, amiable presence, with a healthy respect for the camera. "You have to do your damnedest to be yourself," he says. "It's hard, like having your picture taken...
Roughly 30% of all U.S. health costs are incurred in the last six months of life, far more than in other countries, a consequence, largely, of the American notion that there is no such thing as too much health care. But there's something else, something pernicious. "A lot of defensive medicine is practiced in those last six months," says Mrs. Clinton, "extraordinary efforts used on patients who doctors know will not recover, because of fears that families will think they should have done something they didn't do" -- and who then sue if it wasn't done...
Stressing the importance of "advancing the notion that racial diversity is an asset, not a liability," Chavis addressed the crowd of 160 gathered in Andover Hall...
...renewal schemes are bad almost by definition, since they derive from the bureaucrat's impulse to tidy up, to eradicate funk and chaos in favor of large-scale orderliness; planners fail to see the trees for the forest. During the past couple of decades, the relentlessly-raze-and- rebuild notion of progress has been overtaken by a mania for historic preservation, which is a great improvement. But preservationism can also tend toward the prissy, the anal and the monomaniacal and become a kind of by-the- book undertaker's approach that makes dead and dying downtowns prettier but not quite...