Word: conceptions
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Prominent among the agenda items was the proposal to rid Europe of all nuclear missiles--the so-called "zero-option." Under this concept. Washington would forego the planned deployment of 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe in return for Moscow's dismantling of its SS20s, SS5s and SS4s, which are now targeted on Western European cities...
...negotiate realistic arms limits with the Soviets. The President helped dispel some of those doubts. In Bonn, where Brezhnev was scheduled to start a four-day visit on Sunday, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had just concluded talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "Reagan has set forth a comprehensive concept for the stabilization of peace," said Schmidt. Added Thatcher: "It will receive a warm welcome not only in political circles but in the hearts and minds of people across Europe...
...Soviet concept of a zero option is different. President Leonid Brezhnev has said that if NATO dropped its deployment plans, the U.S.S.R. would "reduce the total" of its missiles; but by how much, he did not say. NATO would not have a single ground-based missile capable of reaching the U.S.S.R. Yet there would be numbers of Soviet missiles within striking distance of Western Europe, just as there are today...
...there is a corporate board member or main street merchant who still believes that Reagan's original concept of how to treat the economy can achieve the results desired, he wisely remains mute...
...unkown again entered the picture, and Yale won a rather boring battle, 14-0. The Harvard offense played as if it had forgotten the meaning of the concept "first down," as the Elis shut down both the Crimson's varied running attack and its flexible passing game. Quarterback John Rogan (who will start on Saturday) clicked with elusive split end Curtis Grieve (also still with Yale) on the last play of the first quarter for the Game's first major, a fourth-and-19 desperation call...