Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region famous for its devotion to the automobile, Pasadena residents have searched for traffic relief in their historic neighborhood for eight years. Residential traffic management will not work. Woonerf concept of channeling automobile movement is a positive and encouraging step...
...which the U.S. might improve relations. We have an old saying: "Moscow does not believe in words." What is needed is practical action. A constructive stand at the [theater nuclear forces] talks in Geneva would demonstrate a definite intention to pursue better relations. But we absolutely cannot accept the concept of using negotiations to buy time in order to proceed with deployment [of the new medium-range missiles] while all sorts of pretexts are invented to blame the Soviet side [for the delay]. The U.S. should take a very unprejudiced look at relations with us without attempting to stick labels...
Meyreles expects to still make people happy as he tries his theater concept and gives his singing career a shot at more recognition and money. But the spontaneity and intimacy of the musician's act which blended so well with the urban surroundings risks getting lost behind a microphone and in a recording studio. Meyreles says psychics have told him he will go far, but he does not rely on them. "If I wasn't doing this, I'd be doing something else and still want to make myself happy," he explains...
...however, to hold the drama; Angelou's writing style becomes more a chain of name-dropping and weird metaphors than a story. For instance, she walks into her office at SCLC to find Dr. Martin Luther King sitting at her desk. But even with the opportunity to enlarge our concept of this human monument, Angelou fails to present Dr. King in more than a bizarre cameo: "Looking at him, in my office, alone, was like seeing a lion sitting down at my dining room table eating a plate of mustard greens." Somehow the lion strength of the man related...
...explain the way firms and households manage their assets and debts, Tobin developed the so-called "portfolio selection theory." The concept enables economists to trace the effects of monetary policies, interest rates and inflation on investment decisions. Before Tobin propounded his theory, economists usually assumed that people automatically tried to reap the biggest return for their investment dollars. Tobin showed that investors tend not just to seek a good return but to balance their holdings in accordance with the overall risks involved...