Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House has already invoked the separate notion of Executive privilege in an attempt to screen aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal from Starr. Extending a similar privilege to the Secret Service would be novel, says Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, but not unreasonable. "It has all the hallmarks of other privileges, such as the marital and clergy privileges. Without it, you run the risk of injuring what is a tremendously important relationship." Not everybody is convinced. "The presidency comes with a lot of perks, but this one is just over the top," says...
Sanford is a complex, brilliant figure in American finance and someone to know if you care to comprehend why your bank just got gobbled up or why your mutual-fund company has begun offering a hundred new ways for you to invest your money. He popularized the notion of risk management, one of the most important ideas in modern finance. He didn't come up with the notion (credit academia), but more than anyone else he helped pioneer a new kind of risk-aware investing that offered a first glimpse of a world of high-wire, high-tech finance...
...changing world. In the week after their deal, Weill and Reed tipped their hats toward Washington, but it was just a courtesy. Banking, everyone seems to have acknowledged, has entered an era that may be larger than old-fashioned laws. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, for one, has abandoned the notion that it is possible to regulate this broad frontier with old-style rules. The burden, he says, has to rest with private industry: Regulate yourselves. "To continue to be effective, government's regulatory role must increasingly assure that effective risk-management systems are in place in the private sector...
Buchanan also seems to think that because neither he nor members of his direct lineage were responsible for slavery, he is excused from collective responsibility. I find this notion most ironic. How quick Buchanan and other white Americans are to excuse themselves from the collective responsibility they have by virtue of their membership in the dominant ruling majority, since they individually did nothing to deserve such "burdens." Yet how reticent they are on giving up the collective privileges of that membership--their access to a power structure against which blacks can never openly compete, but which they must struggle...
...after that tournament he seriously entertained the notion of turning...