Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with an expensive, government-run system such as "pay or play." This also meant that the great liberal hope, a single-payer system in which the government would become everyone's insurer, was a nonstarter. Clinton needed a new approach. In August his health advisers began moving toward the notion of providing universal coverage but relying on market forces to hold down costs. Known as "managed competition," the system would create regional alliances that would buy coverage in large, economical packages from rival groups of doctors, hospitals and other health-care providers...
Larkin made a life's work of offering the unfashionable alternative -- joking about it but meaning it too. His verse, unlike Hughes', was resolutely un-modernist; he clung to the notion that poems should be clearly written in everyday language and should avoid posturing and pretension at all costs -- though, in his hands, that left plenty of room for craft and eloquence. He steered clear of London and the literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when...
...Letterman and his staff dismiss any notion that the show will be toned down or changed in any substantive way to suit the earlier time period. In a series of brainstorming meetings on the subject, Letterman and his producers considered several ideas -- expanding the opening monologue, switching from a single chair for guests to a Tonight-style couch -- and rejected them. Says Morton: "We decided we do a pretty darn good show...
...notion of shorter sentences an incendiary idea in today's political climate...
...want to communicate straight away through the title the notion that there's a struggle involved and that this is not a historical or pious piece of work," said Gomes, who is Plummer professor of Christian morals. "The thesis is that the Bible is increasingly a lost or a closed book to the majority of secular America. As a result, a large part of our society loses the biblical tradition and what...