Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amishman Ed Lee, who will not pay Social Security taxes [April 19], should be free to practice his long-established religion. President Reagan has appealed to Americans to return to the concept of self-help instead of relying on Government aid. The Amish have done just that by caring for their own for generations. Now the IRS wants to take Lee's property when all he asks for is to live and let live...
...that they formerly enjoyed with Egypt if Mubarak would endorse their position on the Palestinians, which would include a restoration of Arab sovereignty to the remaining occupied territories. But this Mubarak cannot do, since he is committed to the Camp David agreement and, through it, to a less explicit concept of Palestinian autonomy. Thus, while it is possible for Mubarak to improve his ties with the other Arabs, he cannot, for the moment at least, achieve a genuine reconciliation...
...avoid manipulation of TV by foreign governments and terrorists, Jennings gave the standard it-won't-happen-again apology for overcovering crowds outside the U.S. embassy in Iran during the hostage crisis. Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger aptly pointed out that "in no country ... is the concept of freedom of information the same as in the U.S." That topic merits 90 minutes by itself - it is the overarching problem that American correspondents face - yet it got scant attention, except in offhand remarks about being denied access to combat zones...
...package of amendments to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, the homemakers measure provided federally subsidized employment and training for divorced and widowed women. Recalling that the idea was fairly radical when she introduced it, Burke adds with satisfaction. "That has now been accepted as a concept. It's very popular; there are now many programs for displaced homemakers across the country...
...petition object to is the fact that his signing his letter with his title and his using the word "we" ("...we see exclusive homosexuality as a disability and believe that society should be structured to encourage heterosexual development") implies, perhaps unwittingly, that the Center for Behavioral Sciences endorses the concept of "negative social pressures" against gay people...