Word: notionally
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Fortunately, the organization that Ritter created seems strong enough to survive his departure. One of the last remaining bulwarks against the New York City notion that nothing need be done because nothing can be done, Ritter personifies Covenant House in the minds of the 800,000 donors on his mailing list. Last year Covenant House's budget was $85 million, three times what the Federal Government spends annually on programs for runaways...
...clock in the morning of his soul, Mikhail Sergeyevich really is a Communist, or at least, in the Soviet sense, a "good" Communist. Certainly many in his audience at the Kremlin were worrying about that last week. Glasnost is an unabashedly antimonopolistic, antitotalitarian, therefore anti-Communist notion. Calling for a "revolution of the mind" before his meeting with the Pope in December, Gorbachev said, "We no longer think that we are the best and are always right, that those who disagree with us are our enemies." A multiparty democracy would be the logical extension of these sentiments...
...antics. "John is a lot of fun," says Barr. "He puts us on the floor." Director John Pasquin praises Goodman's "fertile imagination" as an actor. In one upcoming episode, his character is caught eating ice cream when he is supposed to be on a diet. Goodman improvised the notion of quickly swallowing the ice cream and then fighting off a piercing headache from the cold. Marvels Pasquin: "It was totally rooted in the situation, not something you would ordinarily think of, and hysterically funny...
Never one to be bound by foolish consistency, Gorbachev dismissed the notion of a multiparty system as "rubbish" just a year ago and warned against taking a hasty decision on Article VI at the Congress of People's Deputies in December. Then, on his visit to Lithuania in January, he lobbed a political hand grenade, off-handedly remarking that he saw "no tragedy" in the development of a multiparty system. Last week he said the Communist Party would still struggle to play a leading role but "within the framework of the democratic process by giving up all legal and political...
...five basic subject areas. Typically, Bush left unanswered the thorny questions of who will design the tests, how they will be carried out and funded, and how results will be reported. But given the controversy surrounding national standards and student testing, the fact that the President embraced the notion at all was remarkable. "To superimpose some norms would be radical," says Chester Finn, chairman of the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P.), a 20-year-old federal testing program. "To expand it to everyone would be revolutionary...