Word: concepting
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...fault for this inaction on the part of the United States and other developed countries lies with an inability to take the concept of global warming seriously, in combination with an intense desire to protect recent economic successes. As we move farther away in time from the moment when holes in the ozone layer first were noticed, life continues to progress as usual and we wonder what the big fuss was about; without palpable catastrophe, the theory begins to seem far-fetched and totally passe. The once spell-bounding specter of spreading deserts, of global famine, of expensive real estate...
...think the original concept was great, but having to pay changes it all," Jonathan Y. Yu '02 said. "I wouldn't pay to use Napster...
...system is based on the concept of breaking even while recovering from students the millions used for the 1990 rewiring of student dorms...
...school years when youngsters pay little heed to the opposite sex. "Boys of that age tend to regard girls almost like members of a different species," says Dr. Glenn Elliott, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. "They really don't have much concept...
...instinctively make a face. You don't know their names, but in all truth, you don't care. Because when you see the girls draped in Gucci, wearing Prada shoes, flaunting diamond Rolexes, dripping with Tiffany jewelery, you're not worrying about names or individual identities. They're a concept-interchangeable and a dime a dozen. Ironic, isn't it? They're not bad people, these Pearl Girls. They're just, well, intolerable. But their reign over campuses like Harvard, urban meccas like New York and popular culture is indisputable. Snotty girls rule with attitude and an iron fist...