Word: conceptions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Administration hopes to spend almost two billion dollars researching an ABM system next year. It envisions a five year program that will spend twenty four billion dollars by 1989 determining whether the concept is feasible. Recent studies indicate that the cost of constructing and adequate shield within twenty years would be $250-$500 billion...
...Maginot line--a large and expensive shield that will give us the illusion of safety, but will fail us should the final crisis ever come. Even the attempt to erect a ballistic missile defense will prove disastrous to national security. If we press ahead with Reagan's "star wars" concept, we will alienate our allies, spark a new arms race, and waste billions of dollars that could be better spent on conventional defense or social programs...
...future of computers will be determined by the degree of success scientists enjoy with the concept of "parallel processing." Instead of directing all the computer's labor through a central unit, the work will be divided among many data processing units. The departure from the "von Neumann architecture," named for its founder, will enable programmers to avoid a "bottleneck." The rewards could be substantial since the "von Neumann bottleneck" has served as a traffic jam which severely restricts the flow of information through the one processor...
...curiously passive book, Susan Brownmiller examines the historical basis for the wide range of ways in which men and women differ. Brownmiller invokes the concept of a "feminine ethic" and proffers numerous literary and historical anecdotes to support the idea of a feminine sphere of behavior Ultimately, though, Brownmiller ends most of her chapters with questions, not answers, and if she intended to leave her readers with a message, it is indecipherable...
...classical economics has several elements. First Bauer writes, the rote of government in economic hie must be reduced. Prosperity will be created by the free enterprise system, "in which firms and individuals largely determine what is produced and consumed." Bauer also promotes the ideal of comparative advantage, the concept that nations should produce what they can make most cheaply. For most poor nations this means exporting raw materials and agricultural products. Bauer deems the idea of Third World industrialization inefficient and declares that it is "more likely to retard economic development than to promote...