Word: concepting
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...Gore and his partner Joel Hyatt, who co-founded a nationwide chain of storefront legal clinics, have refined their proposal to be less ideological and more entertaining. It would not be a traditional news network, says a person familiar with their plan, but "something totally different in concept and format." Both Gore and Hyatt declined to be interviewed...
...vital importance of the institution of marriage for fostering responsibility, commitment and the domestication of unruly men. Bringing gay men and women into this institution will surely change the gay subculture in subtle but profoundly conservative ways. When I grew up and realized I was gay, I had no concept of what my own future could be like. Like most other homosexuals, I grew up in a heterosexual family and tried to imagine how I too could one day be a full part of the family I loved. But I figured then that I had no such future. I could...
...Race? If Tung believes that Article 23 is a matter for the greater Chinese race, that bodes poorly for the mere political concept of "one country, two systems." The July 1 march, therefore, may be remembered not as a rally but as a farewell to an idea that never really took hold, and increasingly looks like it never will...
...heart of the book, dominating every page, is the narrator, MM, an intrepid Indian investigative journalist. Like his creator, MM catches top government officials deep in criminal doo-doo, dealing in drugs and arms, but the autobiography presumably ends there. Bahal pushes the concept of the antihero to the limit. MM has a voracious appetite for heavy drugs and unusual sex. The story begins with him embedded in a paratrooper brigade in the Indian army, where he figures out how to inject heroin in free fall. From that point on, he and other characters overindulge in every imaginable recreational drug...
...nine justices supported affirmative action in concept. Although he dissented from the Grutter decision, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy averred that the Bakke standard—and thus affirmative action—is valid, although he said the law school’s policy does not meet that standard...