• If it's true that all economists believe in the notion of free trade, then they also largely believe that government efforts to control prices invariably end in tears.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Such people are powerfully invested in the notion of the Fed as a Solomonic body: that pause of five or eight weeks between economic adjustments seems central to the process of deliberation.

    NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

  • Cabot Lodge specifically objected to the diminution of US national sovereignty inherent in the notion of transferring the power to commit US forces to war from the US Congress to an international body.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Echoes of 1919

  • In addition social adds the notion of the unployee (my own neologism), where work particular in co-creation with customers and partners, brings in the notion of someone who does work for the organization but is not employed by them.

    FORBES: Do Flexible Social Businesses Still Need Employees?

  • And while there's arguably still some sense of hyperbole in the notion of the "next industrial revolution" (as 3D-printing evangelist Bre Pettis loves to put it), it's hard to stand here in the well-lit warehouse amongst the buzz of machinery and ideas and not appreciate the sentiment.

    ENGADGET

  • Opponents of same-sex marriage argue that the equality argument made by gay rights campaigners is a false one and that there are real social risks involved in redefining the notion of marriage in ways broader than the traditional union of man and woman.

    CNN: Opinion: Why the fuss about gay marriage?

  • But I think the President, the embassy there, and everyone can take heart in the notion that the laws of Afghanistan and the institutions of Afghanistan prevailed in both instances.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Regardless of all the systems out there that indicate ranking or even try to capture your degree of trust in others, the very notion of trust is a personal concept that is difficult or impossible to convey in a simple form that the system can quantify.

    FORBES: Serendipity Lies At The Heart Of Business Relationships

  • In 1937 the notion of a black president was so far-fetched that Gallup did not ask people how they felt about it.

    ECONOMIST: Presidential politics

  • Despite the enthusiasm many showed for a return to normalcy, some in the crowd rejected the notion of Zubaydi as an opposition leader.

    CNN: Baghdad civil servants mull resuming work

  • Settle in with one of the myriad newspapers from all over the globe - an increasingly quaint notion in the age of iPads.

    BBC: A perfect day in Miami

  • Another accelerant as I described in earlier talks is the notion of maturity in how you use, and see social business in the organization.

    FORBES: Value Creation is Inherent in Social Business

  • But if we had asked a similar question about Yahoo and Google in 1999, the notion of Google ever catching Yahoo in revenues would have been laughable.

    FORBES: Will Facebook Generate More Revenue Than Google?

  • In fact, the very notion of capitalism is under attack in many communities around the world.

    FORBES: Social Intrapreneurs: Disruptive Innovators on the Inside

  • Until 1986 the republican movement rejected not just Parliament in Westminster and the notion of a Northern Ireland assembly, but also the legitimacy of the Irish state and its parliament.

    ECONOMIST: North meets South

  • Philosophers at the Humboldt University of Berlin, meanwhile, are exploring the various ways in which robotic technologies challenge the notion of what it means to be human.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • The countries are negotiating a security agreement that would define the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, and the notion of a general time frame recently was made part of the negotiations.

    CNN: Obama finds 'consensus' in Iraq for U.S. troop withdrawal

  • The principal objective of the symposium, the proceedings of which are presented here, was to analyze the notion of modernization in terms of openness towards other cultures.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Mr Derrida always denied any responsibility for the undisciplined nihilism of his imitators, who gave the strong impression that deconstructionism had somehow succeeded in undermining, or even in refuting, the notion of objective truth.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • In a medium where the notion of community rarely gets explored beyond a hug and a neat wrapup, and in a season when the safe, tame comedy of Jay Leno has wiped five hours of drama clean off the board, the producers of FNL have dug after something deeper: The idea of decay, of things breaking apart and falling away.

    FORBES: Death, decay and 'Friday Night Lights'

  • At the local level, parental responsibility now includes the task of holding corporations responsible for the foods foisted on children, an important new permutation of the old notion of in loco parentis.

    NPR: Rabid Reader: 'Fat Land' and U.S. Supersizing

  • This special role includes the contribution that SIDS can make to the global community in learning our way back to sustainability, in demonstrating ways and means of how to live and act in a manner consistent with the notion of sustainability.

    UNESCO: Petits ?tats insulaires en d��veloppement

  • The Pope also said the notion of animals in the stable were latter-day additions to the nativity scene.

    BBC: Quiz of the week's news

  • As has been shown from Provence to Punjab, in Chile too the notion of the farmer as an unchanging clodhopper is bunk.

    ECONOMIST: Chile

  • An opting-in mechanism replaces the notion of opting-out and full compensation.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • In keeping with the notion of using the right social tools for your kind of market, Gemvara also uses community-building visual tools such as Pinterest.

    FORBES: Finally an Enterprise Roadmap for Capturing the Full Power of Social

  • He does, however, see a grain of truth in the notion that Asian mothers, more comfortable than Westerners with the idea of meritocracy, drive their children hard.

    ECONOMIST: The contest with China moves into the classroom and nursery

  • But, like so many things offered by our Republican friends in Congress, the notion of cross-state insurance sales may not be quite so good as it first appears.

    FORBES: Would The Sale of Health Insurance Across State Lines Really Benefit Americans?

  • The other provision in the bill that absolutely contradicts the notion of consumer protection is that Congress has specifically prevented the SEC from enforcing more disclosures for equity index annuities.

    FORBES: Financial Reform Bill Will Shaft Consumers

  • In China the abstract notion of an external investor, or a market, does not command anywhere near the same respect as do the state and the demands of the managers within the company itself.

    ECONOMIST: Chinese business

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