Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stressing that the Arab-Israeli conflict is not a bilateral but global issue, Sid Ahmad said that "the concept of peace after the '73 war departed from the idea that regional peace would be a subsystem of international detente." Regional peace is now subordinate to a global cold war, heavily influenced by Soviet threats and U.S. interest in Arab oil, Sid Ahmad said...
Zagorka Golubovic, former professor of sociology at Belgrade University, said the Solidarity movement has forced "a substantial change in the concept of social power in Eastern Europe." Observers recognize the independent social movement as a partner of the government in no other Soviet-bloc nation but Poland, she added...
...machine culture. Le Corbusier derived a good deal of his architectural syntax from the "functional" shapes of American grain elevators, docks and airplanes. And when European modernists in the early '20s dreamed up their Wolkenkratzers (cloud scratchers), the nearest the German language could come to the alien Yankee concept of a skyscraper, critics accused the modernists of deserting their native traditions and caving in to transatlantic cultural imperialism...
...arms of government, the Reagan Pentagon has been the most cooperative recently in providing inanity suitable for ridicule. So no one should complain about the mothballing of the nuclear shell game concept. First of all, it'll probably be back before you can shout "Hit the deck! It's a preemptive first-strike attack!" And second, the military is hard at work hustling new yuks all the time...
Harvard researchers are concerned also with federal legislation that would amend the federal Animal Welfare Act to define pain more broadly. "The notion that everything is painful is an erroneous concept," Barger said. "If the animals suffer we can't do the experiments...