Word: conceptions
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...addition to more jobs, the report recommends better housing and improved education for Britain's blacks. To reduce glaring inequities, it also endorses the concept of "positive discrimination," known in the U.S. as affirmative action, especially with regard to police hiring. Only .5% of police in London are black. Scarman closes by quoting from Lyndon Johnson's foreword to a report on the racial disorders that racked the U.S. in the 1960s: "We should attack these conditions-not because we are frightened by conflict, but because we are fired by conscience...
DIED. Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 68, founder and board chairman of Litton Industries, who was architect of the modern management concept of conglomerates; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1953 he bought Litton, a tiny electronics company, and made it a huge conglomerate, acquiring some 40 firms that produced 200 products. As an Army Air Forces colonel in World War II, he won fame as the inventor of a "statistical control" system to keep track of the military's global resources. In 1946, he and nine Army colleagues moved to the financially ailing Ford Motor Co., where they were nicknamed...
...demonstrations are mounted by a heterogeneous, loosely linked but powerful coalition that has become a formidable political force in Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. It threatens, if unchecked, to make NATO a useless concept, to strain beyond tolerance the deep but subtle ties that link America with the continent it has twice fought to defend in this bloody century, and to imperil the very ability of the West to stand, free and united, against the encroachments and designs of the Soviet Union...
...sense of urgency was heightened by an apparent deadlock between Egypt and Israel over Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank and Gaza. Just two weeks ago, both sides spoke hopefully of a "breakthrough," but that optimism has all but vanished. "There are dramatic differences just in the concept of the self-governing authority," said a Western diplomat in Cairo about the talks. After 30 months, the two sides have agreed only on how to conduct elections for members of a proposed autonomy council...
...substantially narrowing the gap, NATO might some day be able to deter the armored legions of the Warsaw Pact without having to rely quite so much on the threat of using the nuclear equalizer. With the viability of nuclear deterrence against nonnuclear aggression already in doubt, the less that concept is belabored, the better...