Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was disheartening evidence that dreams are dying hard. Students elected Beth A. Stewart '00 president of the student body on a myopic platform of "pragmatic" student issues such as wiring the dorms for cable television and winning frozen yogurt for first-years. In that election, students rejected the notion that their representatives ought to engage bigger and simply more important issues: Faculty diversity, the tenure process, the close-mouthed Administrative Board, the morality of University investments. Long-term progress on these big issues takes a willingness to think...
Habibie's reputation for loony ideas is at its worst when it comes to economics. He is widely ridiculed for his bizarre "zig-zag theory," based on the notion that cutting interest rates, then doubling them, then slashing them again will reduce inflation. His inexperience petrifies investors. "Even if you zero out the political risk, economically you still have a mess here," says Matthew Pecot, head of research with GK Goh Securities in Jakarta. "Give it two weeks or so, and I think the students will be back out there protesting against Habibie...
Credit Boston Market (formerly Boston Chicken) with fomenting the HMR decade. The company, which first featured rotisserie chicken, transformed the notion of fast food by serving the kind of fare one would expect to come piping hot out of the kitchen oven but instead comes straight out of a ready-to-eat or ready-to-heat package. "We offer traditional food that people would cook at home if they had the time or the inclination," says Keith Robinson, chief marketing officer at Boston Market. "It's convenient, accessible, pretty affordable and easier than going to the supermarket. Our competition...
...play within a play, only the player doesn't know he's in it. That's a beguiling idea for a Saturday Night Live skit or one of David Ives' miniature metaphysical farces. But can such a notion sustain a full-length film (even one that clocks in at a svelte 102 minutes)? And will the film satisfy the mass audience's interest in what is, after all, a Jim Carrey Summer Movie...
Until not so long ago, Sinatra's notion of cool was deader than an imploded casino in Vegas. Bourbon on the rocks and snap-brim hats were your parents'--no, worse, your grandparents'--idea of hip, stuff that looked quaint beside the bug-eyed alienation of the 1960s. Hippies wore blissed-out smiles and ponchos. Sinatra wore cuff links, roughly $30,000 worth in the mid-1950s, when that kind of money bought a house or two. In the Oedipal drama of the counterculture, Frank was the daddy-o who must die. He could swing his raincoat over his shoulder...