Word: notion
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This is what Gore aides call the "economic disqualifier" for Bush--the notion that when voters focus on the race, they'll choose Gore's policies and track record over Bush's. Pointing to gaudy new estimates of the ballooning budget surplus, Gore proposes to spend the money in "disciplined" ways to keep the prosperity going while Bush would "squander" it and "put prosperity beyond our reach." In an interview with TIME last Friday, Gore warmed to this theme: "The new estimates really bring into sharp focus not only the success of the past eight years, but also...
Ironically, the mainstream embrace of voyeurism comes precisely as many Americans feel their own privacy is in danger, be it from surveillance on the job, marketers on the Net or database-wielding bureaucrats in their HMOs. "The notion that people should be able to go home and close their front door and shut out the outside world seems to be breaking down, especially in light of the new technologies," says Reg Whitaker, political science professor at York University in Canada and author of The End of Privacy (New Press; $25). "These shows are a kind of acting...
...weeks ago, the idea that the recording industry would embrace Michael Robertson as one of its own was about as ridiculous as, well, as the notion that the leaders of North and South Korea would shake hands. Robertson, founder and CEO of MP3.com was trying to turn the music business on to the MP3 revolution, but all the suits saw was a maverick who went around claiming that they were dinosaurs who didn't get it. And when he launched the My.MP3.com service that allowed users to copy their CDs into his online folders and listen to them from anywhere...
HYBRID'S HYBRID Chrysler led the design revolution in the 1990s with streamlined, low-slung road rockets that all but did away with the notion of a hood. For 2025, Bryan Nesbitt, designer of today's PT Cruiser, above, envisions a mix of minivan, sport utility and pickup truck...
...long run are kind of wonky," says Salon's erstwhile media writer, Sean Elder. Subjects of limited appeal, like international news, may survive in niche publications, but what about general-interest ones like Salon (or TIME)? Ciao to classical music. So long, Sierra Leone. And goodbye to the quaint notion that readers should care about anything beyond their existing interests. The media of tomorrow will be poised to give you exactly what you want. But you might think twice about whether you really want that...