Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grossing about $3.5 million per year, and she is proud of never having received either government or corporate grants. Says she: "I'm a believer in the concept that if it's good, the way you'll know it is that people will pay. The bottom line is crucial because it's my report card...
...Mattel in fact that originated the concept of an omnipotent He-Man in 1980 and sold the idea to Filmation, a Los Angeles-based production company. "We were trying to fill a hole in the marketplace," recalls Mattel President Glenn Hastings. "We looked at boys ages three to six and found that, unlike girls, they spend a lot of time fantasizing about good vs. evil...
...addition, Reagan has tilted the world's attention to outer space, whether he planned it that way or not. The arms talks will now focus on Reagan's Star Wars concept for a space-based defense against nuclear missiles as a substitute for the current balance of terror. Virtually every debate about national security will lead into the heavens, where the U.S. space shuttle flies, and plans have been made for a permanent space station...
...than a year (more than 3 million as of 1984). That book was followed by 60 other volumes of meditations, poems, essays, criticism, history, translations, drawings and photographs. For masses of readers Brother Louis, as he was called by the Trappists, redefined the image of monasticism and made the concept of saintliness accessible to moderns. His treatise on meditation, New Seeds of Contemplation (1962), was deemed a spiritual classic. Moreover, the cloistered monk became a pioneering Catholic polemicist on civil rights and the immorality of nuclear war. Merton explored the spirituality of Eastern religions well before other Catholics...
...When you talk about a professional athlete losing it," Bob Cousy says, "it comes down to what he can settle for. In the individual sports, you lose it more quickly, or show it more. In a team concept, it's not that you can fake it exactly, but you can hide the subtle decline better. I did." This is more than surprising because, when Cousy retired against the Boston Celtics' wishes in 1963, the common feeling was that he was still on top of his game, one of those considerate treasures who chose the time grandly. "I chose...