Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other advisers, Reagan dampened his tough talk for much of 1983. Then came the downing of the Korean airliner on Aug. 31. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly one month later, Reagan said that the incident was a "reminder of just how different the Soviets' concept of truth and international cooperation is from that of the rest of the world...
...abandon the Olympics, much as the ancient Greeks did a thousand years ago, realizing their great concept was just no longer practicable. Let us return the athletics to the athletes; let us send the politicians back to their politicking and, most of all, let us try to address some of the problems that created the crisis of the Olympics in the first place...
...including the chairperson of the Undergraduate Council--put in 25, 30, or more hours per week and receive no remuneration. True, their work involves less drudgery than does the Executive Secretary's and in some cases they hire others to do the typing, filing and telephone, answering. But the concept in similar--an organizationally talented student is selected to play an honorary leadership role...
While the concept of optics computing has existed for many years, only recently have technological advances in semi-conductors, lasers, and glass technology, brought scientists to within range of attaining their goals...
Broadway audiences may have more trouble than George stepping into this austere, demanding concept. No high-kicking razzmatazz here; in fact, no choreography. No heart-pummeling sentiment; in fact, virtually no characters, as Author-Director James Lapine follows Seurat's lead and dehydrates his actors into cardboard stereotypes. Nor is there a surfeit of "humma-mamumma-mamum-mable melodies," Stephen Sondheim's derisively witty phrase from his last show, Merrily We Roll Along. Sondheim long ago renounced such simple show-biz pleasures; neither Dot nor the audience gets to go to the Follies. This score is often doggedly...