Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concerto, which came out in May, also bore a new concept. Calling itself an "inter-disciplinary magazine-to bridge the threatening gulf between the sciences and humanities," Concerto was conceived by Brian A. Lynn '85, a Currier House physics concentrator...
...highly-regarded trial judge in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, where I practice. However, I think that President Bok has been cooped up far too long in his ivory tower to understand what is going on in the world outside at this time. For that reason, I cannot accept his naive concept that matters involving conflicting interests can be settled by conciliation around a conference table. Not only is such a concept opposed to our system of government and our economic system, in fact, it does not work anywhere in the world. President Bok's statement that the result of legal education...
...knew since going Hist and Lit at the end of freshman year that in risking orals I was flirting with hellfire. My memory is such that people I've grown up with often have to tell me stories about myself. I also have moral qualms about the concept of oral tests: they merely test your ability to bullshit while sipping sherry with other literati with the added incentive of a machine gun aimed between your eyes...
...term too unscientific to be taken seriously. "The moment you used the word, you were dismissed as a thinking individual," says Dr. Harold Ward, director of the stress medicine laboratory at the University of California at San Diego. One reason was the lack of an adequate definition for the concept. According to the late Dr. Hans Selye, the Austrian-born founding father of stress research, stress is simply "the rate of wear and tear in the body." But others persist in using the term to refer
...build-down" in nuclear missiles. As outlined by Cohen in a newspaper article last January, this plan would have each side dismantle two existing warheads every time it deployed a new one. Reagan liked the idea so much that he called the surprised Cohen to suggest that the concept be refined...