Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subtle and nuanced; if you want a primer, just listen in on one of the shouted diatribes going on outside Quincy. With a vehemence worthy of a second grade game of dodgeball, armed-to-the-teeth paramilitary forces discuss their complex hors do combat. Particularly problematic is the notion of the "neutral zone." The arms race reached absurd heights this year, as Quincy assassin went from simply being an absurd waste of time to an absurd waste of money, as well. With walkie-talkie headsets and wrist blasters, "Assassin" troopers aspire toward Boba Fett (dude, that was so stupid...
...have too readily accepted the notion that employers will strive to exploit their workers and that only a skein of laws, regulations and codes can prevent enormous suffering. Exploitation, abuse and greed are not inherent elements of the production process. We have sat through Marty Feldstein's mind-numbing lectures and we have read the praise of economic efficiency that so often appears on these editorial pages. But we re unwilling to think only within the bounds of what we have been taught to believe is the "natural" way of the economy...
...about so vividly. His Irish parents moved to London before he was born, and he visited Ireland only for summer holidays. His parents moved back a few years ago, leaving Martin and his brother to share the South London house where they grew up. McDonagh bridles gently at the notion that he's unfit to follow in the tradition of Sean O'Casey and John Millington Synge--that "with an accent like mine you can't write Irish plays. I'm a storyteller. I believe in making things...
...government, and by the end of the decade more than 50 countries, on almost every continent, had set in motion privatization programs, floating loss-making public companies on the stock markets and in most cases transforming them into successful private-enterprise firms. Even left-oriented countries, which scorned the notion of privatization, began to reduce their public sector on the sly. Governments sent administrative and legal teams to Britain to study how it was done. It was perhaps Britain's biggest contribution to practical economics in the world since J.M. Keynes invented "Keynesianism," or even Adam Smith published The Wealth...
...some the answer is as intractable as it is frightening. The animosity between Hutu and Tutsi, many Westerners believe, grew out of fierce and ancient tribal hatred. But Rwandans like Bizimana, who each day grapple with explaining the unspeakable, resist this orthodox notion of tribalism. "The genocide philosophy was created in the colonial period to divide people who shared a common culture," he says. In the 1920s, Belgian colonial authorities classified Rwandans into different tribes. One group of families, whom the Belgians called Tutsi, was given the advantages of Western culture, such as access to schools. The rest were labeled...