Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as the superpowers were agreeing on procedure, there was a new glimpse into how far apart they are on substance. It was contained in a document made public by Paul Nitze, 78, special arms-control adviser to Shultz and President Reagan, outlining the "strategic concept" behind proposals that Kampelman will present in Geneva. The U.S., the statement said, "should seek a radical reduction in the number and power of existing and planned offensive and defensive nuclear arms, whether land-based, space-based or otherwise...
...Soviets have complained repeatedly that it is inherently unfair for the U.S. to seek trade-offs between existing Soviet arms and future American ones. They have warned that if new talks are to go anywhere, they must be based on the concept of "equal reductions." Translation: trade-offs between existing weapons on both sides...
...move the university into the front rank, the commission, whose co- chairmen are Ralph Davidson, chairman of the board of Time Inc., and Harold Enarson, president emeritus of Ohio State University, makes 29 recommendations. The key one is "to restructure SUNY as a public benefit corporation." By this concept SUNY would become a semi-independent state body, with funds allocated in block grants, under control of the trustees. New construction would be paid for by additional state revenues. Thus SUNY's administrators would presumably have their hands free and enough money to run the store...
...publishing specialist in the Manhattan firm of Rogers & Wells. Said Henry Kaufman, general counsel for the Libel Defense Resource Center, a New York-based media group: "It's a Rube Goldberg kind of charge. I'm concerned, in the context of this case, that jurors will turn the concept of material exaggeration or distortion around to secondguess editorial judgment...
...Rosset had also questioned the casting of black actors in two of the play's four roles. Last week Actors' Equity, the stage performer's union, denounced such objections. Said the executive secretary of Equity, Alan Eisenberg: "We've got to raise the consciousness of the playwright to the concept of nontraditional casting...