Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ensuing hand-wringing has been massive. Some say the blame lies with stubborn Justice Department lawyers such as Ryan who mistakenly held to the notion that Demjanjuk was Ivan in an effort to have a show trial that would advance them professionally. Others say the Israeli and American prosecution's reliance on eyewitness testimony--unreliable because of the passage of time and painful memories--doomed the case...
...whole notion of accountability and equity of the school system needs to be looked at," she said. "My primary goal is to have some type of curriculum guide [and] curriculum goals implemented...
Most Omaha residents used to dismiss teenage gunplay as a problem confined to the north side of Omaha, which is largely black and poor. That comfortable notion was shattered last August by a seven-minute fire fight among mostly white teenagers in Benson. "I've lived in this area all my life, and now boys are shooting at each other for the hell of it," says Bonnie Elseman, a single mother in the neighborhood. "I now realize that I owe the blacks in Omaha an apology for ignoring all the shootings because I thought it was just their problem...
...floated and came to nothing last fall, which generated a respectful Wall Street Journal article in June and a breathless feature in the current Vanity Fair -- is thus among the more implausible. It is also the most annoying, because Cosby's hangers-on are so strenuously pushing the notion, because it is such an indulgence of Cosby's self-righteous vanity, and because the story is a fabric of so many spurious bits of conventional wisdom...
...only notion that could torpedo the harmony of the hearings is the possibility that Republicans are accepting Ginsburg as a lesser evil. In spite of Ginsburg's years of lobbying and advocacy for women's rights, Ginsburg is not as liberal as she might seem...