Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict, everything rests on grand strategy, a President's concept of how the threats, purposes and realities of power should be used. No vision, no victory. Washington wisely employed young America's guerrilla instincts, honed in skirmishes on the frontier, to beat the massed British armies. Lincoln, whose first commanders were bested by field tacticians of the Confederacy, turned to big armies, superior firepower and generals like Grant, who knew how to use them. Wilson and Roosevelt marshaled American industrial capacity to win World Wars. Johnson and Truman never figured out what they wanted, so they never made...
...divided among the 1,400 Jewish families who will be obliged to vacate their homes, farms and businesses in the Sinai. The debate over the generous compensation, which ranges between $100,000 and $500,000 per family, reflected the ambivalence of the Israeli public toward the whole concept of withdrawal. The offer of money did not win over all of the settlers in the Sinai, by any means. "Now the real fight can begin," said Avi Farhan, an activist in the movement to stop the withdrawal from the Sinai. "We can't be bought with money...
...tedious, however, partly because of awkward hand controls (which hamper a good skiing cartridge) and partly because not enough of baseball's delightful complications are programmed in. It is not possible to catch a fly ball. A Poker and Blackjack cassette is fun to see once, but poor in concept, since neither game works unless money is at stake. Intellivision always puts on a handsome show, but a random sample shows that it has not yet learned to play a really good game...
...think that questions about Darwin's theory strengthened the creationist claim that their theory should be taught as a science. Under the law, for example, schools were directed to provide students with the evidence for the sudden creation of the universe out of nothing. Overton found that concept wholly religious. Perhaps mindful of a poll showing that 76% of the U.S. public favors the teaching of both theories, the judge was careful not to "criticize or discredit any person's testimony based on his or her religious beliefs." But, he noted, no group may use government agencies...
...argument has problems. In the way Trow constructs it, it admits no middle ground. Everything appears contaminated and bleak, and Trow makes no allowance for anything redeeming in American culture. In the concept of consensus, Trow has hit on one of the key underpinnings of the culture. But he has not hit on everything, and his presentation--in the form of a series of block notes ranging in length from epigrams to miniature essays strung together into the longer essay--suffers from being overly polemical...