Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World" In a feature article, Sports Illustrated praised the new facility, calling it the best of its kind in America. McCurdy had wanted a facility exclusively for track, he said, but limited funds made it "nonsensical to have a track and nothing else, so the old multiple use concept reared its ugly head," he said, and tennis courts were integrated into the facility...
Particularly when compared to the demands for a concrete presence like a Third World Center, many students feel that an abstract concept like the Foundation has a lot to prove. Many students say that the Third World Center was the crucial issue, and once that was denied, it was not very important what concession they made instead. "A lot of students see it as just a way of appeasing them." Akili Tyson '83, who worked for a Third World Center, says, "Among students who worked hard to get a Third World center there is a real feeling of betrayal." Williams...
...reportedly being held in a government guest house near Warsaw, said that he expected to be freed in time for the March 7 christening ceremony. He also gave the priest a brief note saying that all previous appeals attributed to him had been "provocatively fabricated." Wrote Walesa: "My concept of struggle is different, and I will explain it after coming out." Despite his dreams of a prompt release, that explanation may be long in coming...
...agreed in 1978 to the removal of discrimination, and the constitutional proposals again contain that, so we could not really object to it now. I don't think you have any concept of the jump that had to be taken here. It was a giant leap with the crocodile's jaws waiting for us. The current proposals do not go as far as we would have wished with regard to minority [white] protection. But the present constitution contains a provision that opens the possibility for minorities to win seats that they might otherwise have lost. It also contains...
Suddenly, linkage became a rallying cry for those who felt the Soviets were getting more out of détente than the U.S. In the Ford Administration, the concept was expropriated by Kissinger's opponents on Capitol Hill, and transformed into a rationale for pressuring or punishing the Soviet Union. Congress in 1974 withheld economic benefits to the Soviets unless they would agree to ease restrictions on Soviet Jews who wanted to emigrate. Instead, the Kremlin actually cut back on the number of Jews allowed to leave...