Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original concept of establishing a twin city in the Soviet Union was unanimously approved by the City Council in 1981 with the intent to create "an enhanced sense of shared values" through cultural interaction...
...nuclear arsenals. To its critics, the idea could worsen the threat by ending any real hope for lasting arms-control agreements and by aborting the work of Soviet and American negotiators meeting in Geneva this week. But to many scientists who are responsible for the technology of the concept rather than its policy implications, Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars, is still little more than, well...
...nearly two years ago, despite important breakthroughs in microchip and other crucial technology. A report by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment declared the prospect of an effective missile & defense "so remote that it should not serve as the basis for public expectations or national policy." But the concept does have its well-placed supporters, including George Keyworth, the President's science adviser, and Robert Jastrow, founder of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" the equivocator would answer it in this way: "some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
...arms-control advisers cannot agree among themselves on what to offer the Soviets, much less on what to accept in return. The principal source of contention is a weapon that is still only a concept: the Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars. Proposed by Ronald Reagan ! almost two years ago as an impenetrable shield against incoming missiles, the SDI is at least a decade and untold billions of dollars away from deployment. Many experts doubt that it can ever be made to work, at least as well as it is supposed to--and would have...