Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several Harvard observers, including Hoffman and Albert Carnesale, professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, attributed political motivations to Reagan's disavowal of the Carter administration's "shell game" concept of scattering 200 missiles in 4600 new bases in several Western states...
...admen, who know that the best way to get a large audience is to put large breasts on the poster. So Fine has more to show for itself than just the T&A it advertises. What it reveals is not so much skin as careful thought, a clear concept, and even some...
...park, I come upon a snarling tiger, the fear is appropriate because there is a real danger. But if, instead of a tiger, I see a small mouse and am terrified by that harmless creature, the fear is useless." For readers who have no difficulty understanding this formidable concept, Wolpe goes on to define emotion, imagination and habit. With the exception of "systematic desensitization," the author shuns words over two syllables long, and those few staples which he cannot absolutely avoid--anxiety and inhibition, for instance--he italicizes for emphasis...
...Under the concept of linkage, the Soviets must accept that if they attempt to seek gains in one area, they will pay a price on other issues at the bargaining table...
...field that has frequently equated money with excrement, the subject of fees is provocative. Malcolm notes that Freud established the concept of paying by the hour and holding the patient financially responsible for missed sessions. "Nothing," he wrote, "brings home to one so strongly the significance of the psychogenic factor in the daily life of men, the frequency of malingering, and the nonexistence of chance as a few years' practice of psychoanalysis on the strict principle of leasing by the hour." Green tells of one patient so obsessed with his bill that the doctor did not get paid...