Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council who voted to approve the concept of a campus-wide "Bahamas Party" in he held the first weekend of January reading period. The party's door prize will be a trip for two to the Hahamas or some other comparable resort, to be financed by admission charges as well as the council's social committee budget...
...Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who has long maintained close ties to Arafat: "Because he was so intent on maintaining the unity of the P.L.O., he never stated clearly enough what his real aims were. For every politician there comes a time when he must decide whether to sacrifice a political concept to unity or risk a split." Arafat elected what seemed to be the safer course, but for Assad it was already too late. The Syrian President read the Arafat-Hussein maneuverings, even though they came to naught, as an attempt to usurp a right he has always claimed for himself...
Nuclear weapons were also on the minds of France's Roman Catholic bishops last week. Meeting in Lourdes, the prelates took a searching look at the concept of nuclear deterrence-and came out roundly in favor of it. By a vote of 93 to 2, the bishops endorsed a 5,000-word document entitled Winning Peace, which declared among other things that "nuclear deterrence is still legitimate" and strongly disavowed the idea of unilateral disarmament by the West...
...questioned Bell at every turn. As far back as 1913, when European phone systems were being nationalized, the Postmaster General advocated Government ownership of the phone system. But a privately controlled monopoly seemed to be the most efficient way to run a national phone system, and Vail's concept...
That has seldom, if ever, been the case. Through a complex system of cross subsidies, brilliant in concept but worrisome in practice, one type of phone service has helped pay for another. That kept phone costs down and within almost everyone's reach, but led to price inequities. A phone line in San Francisco that cost Pacific Telephone $29 to install and maintain monthly was billed to the customer at $7. The difference was made up by higher prices for other services, like heavy tolls for calls from one end of the Bay Area to the other. Similar subsidies...