Sometimes a good notion is nothing more than the transplant of an old idea.
Obama had also proposed reducing agricultural subsidies to farmers with sales of more than half a million dollars a year, a notion that farm-state senators like Conrad, who have disproportionate influence on the Budget and Finance Committees, rejected.
He wrote and spoke often of the Great Depression of the 1930s, generally assigning more blame to the government than to the notion of a free market system run amok.
First, the notion that the Mets will be anything more than a last-place team this year hinges almost entirely on the health of Santana.
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But such a notion is more aptly suited for a shampoo label than for market interpretation.
But despite his bravery and combat record, he was more of an engineer than a warrior, and a hero who would have dismissed the notion that he was heroic.
Many such explanations arise from the idea that males have more to gain than females do by seeking a large number of mates a notion that is ultimately based on experiments with fruit flies in 1948.
For example, I often run into criticism of my notion that homeostasis makes evolution a far more intention-driven process than the Darwinist idea can comfortably accommodate.
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.
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In a Wikipedia world, the stodgy fact is a dated notion, yet I would argue that it is more vital today than at any time in our past.
The Aztecs believed that life is nothing more than a series of endless cycles, the genesis of the "What goes around comes around" notion.
No one is a partner to more multiples, he pointed out, than a genius, and he came to the conclusion that our romantic notion of the genius must be wrong.
There is a common notion in the drug industry that bigger is necessarily better, and that securing more than 10% of the world market is the key to corporate happiness.
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Some boys are more hard-charging than others, but there's a vast variety of boys, and we tend--our notion of masculinity in this country tends to highlight only one kind of boy.
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The timing, it seems, is perfect: Those who opposed reform more than a decade ago (the insurers, the pharmaceutical companies, large employers) are now on board with the general notion of reform.
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