Word: conceptions
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...SURELY one of the most ironic footnotes to history. In his inagural in 1945, leftist Juan Jose Arevalo, the first popularly elected President of Guatemala., movingly cited Franklin Roosevelt. "He taught us," said Arevalo, "that there is no need to cancel the concept of freedom is the democratic system in order to breathe into it a socialist spirit...
...parties now seek to pull out of the Camp David framework, there will be little hope for progress on those issues which they agreed to defer to let history contribute to a solution. There will be no solution on autonomy. But if they continue to abide by the concept agreed to at Camp David, which establishes a transition period in which confidence building can emerge under a central governing authority, there is no reason that this is undoable...
...What about your concept of a "strategic consensus" in the area...
Actually, the future does not exist except as a concept, a cosmic wisp of possibility. How people view it can make big differences. What befalls society around the bend in the river will not come hurtling out of space (weather excepted) but will have arisen out of today. "The present," as Philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz put it, "is pregnant with the future." The highest prudence consists not of looking ahead but of giving the best care to the burgeoning and, for better or worse, fruitful moment at hand. -By Frank Trippett
Graham probably never imagined when he was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister in 1939 that a shift in his views would be the most visible sign of a general, political shift in Christianity. But he is now using the concept of a nuclear freeze as one way to explain Christian theology. His close association with then-President Richard M. Nixon during the Vietnam War led many people to assume he supported the war and to exhibit surprise at his recent public statements in favor of an eventual freeze on the production of nuclear weapons. Graham has been asked...