Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solve, which is the vulnerability of American missiles to a Soviet preemptive first strike? Asked this question on the eve of the President's speech, an Administration official charged with helping to sell the program shrugged his shoulders and conceded that there was "something counterintuitive" about the concept. That is a fancy way of saying it defies common sense. Many experts suspect it does not make scientific sense either...
...then, the President is merely linguistically shrouding what it really is--a new budget cut to help bail the Administration out of its budget deficit problem. While reassessing costly benefit programs is in itself entirely reasonable, the White House's backdoor style an describing and disclosing the concept warrant disdain...
...athletes are paid, the siege ended badly. "We are the game," the players proclaimed in September. Fifty-five percent of the gross was "etched in stone," until it became 50% of the television money. Finally, along with proposals for a salary fund and a wage scale, the percentage concept evaporated entirely. Owners will continue to pay their hired hands directly by individual bargaining, though they promised to spend a total of $1.6 billion over five years...
What else lies in store? Berg's Wozzeck, perhaps. A demanding performer who turned down a request by Herbert von Karajan to sing Beckmesser because he disagreed with Karajan's concept, Prey is currently mulling a couple of offers to sing the foremost 20th century antihero. He plans to ignore the tradition of croaking and barking the role that has evolved since the challenging opera's premiere in 1925. "Berg wanted a beautiful voice," says Prey. "I want to sing every note as it is written...
...contrary, insofar as the military sector has drained off resources from the civilian economy, the U.S.S.R.'s war machine has weakened the country. According to some reports, a number of party officials and theoreticians have even begun asking whether, as a result, their country ought to shift its concept of strength and security from a narrow, strictly military definition to a broader one, embracing economic strength and social stability as well. In other words, should the classic guns-vs.-butter conflict be resolved, for once, in a way that gives at least equal emphasis to butter...