Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also true that MEEP members share an acceptance of the concept of a negotiated two-state solution, and again there is no clear reason why that should detract from the conference's validity. Some form of two-state solution is currently regarded by many Arabs, Jews, and Americans--even that radical's radical, Ronald Reagan--as one of the few viable options for eventual resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...concept began to backfire in mid-1981, when high interest rates in the U.S. and the international oil glut helped to cause the near collapse of Dome. The company, one of Canada's largest, had amassed debts of $7.4 billion, more than one-quarter of that due to the Hudson's Bay deal. Interest rates on the debt grew to a nightmarish 22%. Last month Dome was saved from bankruptcy by a government-backed emergency bailout handled through a consortium of four Canadian banks...
...Drift," Pastan compares the movement of two sleepy lovers to the phenomenon of continental drift. A scientist would mumble about geology to explain a concept that always shocks people the first time they hear it. Conventional approaches to everything are dissolving, information is exploding, and the earth's very continents are slowly moving apart. Pastan dismisses the scientist's wishy-washy explanations simply: "It is natural law this drift...
...serious business. In the Garden of Eden, filled with anonymous beasts of the field and fowl of the air, it represented Adam's first homework assignment. Juliet found time to agonize eloquently on the subject at great length. Even the famous Broadway lyricist T. S. Eliot `10 treated the concept with respect, calling it "a delicate matter" "It isn't just one of your holiday games," he added "You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter when I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES...
Kenyatta thinks the affirmative action controversy at the Law School is only a part of a national problem. Economic issues, he says, are the most important concern for Blacks in America today, and affirmative action is "a key concept" for helping Blacks escape poverty. Attacking the trend against affirmative action, he insists. "We have to fight to broaden it at the very time institutional America is trying to kill...