Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES HAVE ACCEPTED California Republican hopeful TOM HUENING's invitation for new members of Congress to meet in Omaha on Nov. 23 to fashion a House reform agenda. Even though Huening may not win, both parties are rattled by the notion. House aides deny any connection with the Huening summit, but Speaker Tom Foley will effectively pre-empt the powwow by traveling next weekend to Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago to meet with all Democratic winners. His agenda: new committee assignments and (coincidentally?) reforms...
...policy can be set until scientists confirm or refute the evidence of the wolves' return. So the painstaking examination of the animal killed last month is beginning to resemble the autopsy of a slain President. Forensic tests to examine wear of the beast's paws and teeth support the notion that it is a wild wolf. Preliminary analysis of the skull is inconclusive. Now researchers are trying to match the animal's genetic material with that of known populations of wolves...
...education and treatment would substantially cut the number of cocaine and heroin addicts. Even if that required higher initial spending, it would be a bargain when lower crime and health-care costs are counted in -- to say nothing of reduced human misery. But treatment is only part of her notion of a drug war that starts in the classrooms. Too bad that in her view it generally begins on the wrong foot. While Washington offers American schools $500 million each year to adopt drug-use-prevention programs, school officials are on their own when it comes to deciding which curriculum...
Americans, by contrast, tinker endlessly with their patchwork of entitlement programs aimed largely at the poor. The failure to make a French-style commitment has much to do with the reverence Americans have for self-reliance. They cling to a new-frontier notion of rugged individualism, forgetting that those who actually braved the alien territories of the Wild West traveled in groups of families, not alone. Through the agrarian era into the modern one, Americans have continued to regard the nurturing of families as a personal issue rather than a public concern. "We have this notion," says research psychologist Arlene...
...people they represent) Fernandez returns to Stanford, citing the university's student body motion last year "to clear accused representatives only through clear and convincing evidence" and not just evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt." In his view, being innocent before proven guilty seems to be a trivial notion in describing the judicial process that we might institute for accused council members. And as for earnest campaigning, ask anyone who made a bid for the council this year, and they'll tell you how much hard, honest work they put into securing a seat...