Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keyworth objected to the press's use of the phrase Star Wars to describe what he called the President's new defensive concept. Admitting "the American people are not likely to enthusiastically support the placement of nuclear weapons in space," he urged the assembled scientists to start thinking instead about ways to get their share of the huge research-and-development money involved in putting laser beams in space. In Los Alamos, weapons are bread and butter...
Scanlon explained that while Rawls had used the concept of original contract to understand the "legitimacy of social institutions," he himself uses it "to examine the question of what are the requirements of individual morality...
When President Reagan gave that comforting concept vast publicity and his ardent support in his Star Wars speech last March, many scientists complained that the President was far too optimistic about the state of their wondrous arts. Arms-control experts warned that holding out such panaceas diverted attention from the painful chore of negotiating agreements to reduce nuclear weapons. The development of defensive systems, they said, could touch off another arms race, this one in space, and possibly even entice an enemy to attack before the weapons were fully operational...
...obstacle as the faith vs. good works controversy. Luther had married a nun, to the disgust of his Catholic contemporaries. From the start, the marriage of clergy was a sharply defined difference between Protestantism and Catholicism, and it remains a key barrier today. By discarding the concept of the moral superiority of celibacy, Luther established sexuality as a gift from...
...being "Mr. Clean Marine" is not enough not even for the moviemakers. The question is does Glenn have if-that elusive concept of boldness and skill definable only as "the right stuff?" And what is it, anyway? Here the film equivocates...