Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over plans to confiscate Communist property and change the name of the city back to St. Petersburg than debating bread-and-butter issues. Sobchak's efforts to crack the whip have provoked complaints of "authoritarianism." He in turn claims that "many of those who call themselves democrats have no notion of democracy...
When is gift wrapping a gift in its own right? When it's made of dollar bills. In keeping with that notion, tony Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family...
...opened its doors to more and more scholarship students and to boys from Germany, the Soviet Union and Spain. Latin is fading toward obsolescence, while Arabic, Japanese and Swahili are / all on the curriculum. In a sense, the place is drawing closer to its founder's original notion of a truly "public" school. "It is a privileged school," acknowledges Anderson, an energetic and articulate Scotsman from a family of royal kilt makers, "with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting. But the only justification for privilege is that it should help people develop themselves to the full. We are elitist...
...Still, the Iraqi leader has ignored international opinion before. During the Iran-Iraq conflict, he employed poison gas against Iranian infantry and his own Kurdish population. The main impact of germ warfare on American soldiers may be psychological. Says Robert Weinberg, a germ-warfare expert at M.I.T.: "The very notion of biological agents strikes fear into their hearts...
TATIE DANIELLE. "She doesn't know you, and already she doesn't like you." That's how the French advertised this bracingly malicious comedy about an old auntie who upends every sentimental notion about the kindness of the aged. Now it comes to U.S. theaters. Will the Gray Panthers picket...