Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present trend in the Soviet Union lasts, let's say, five or seven years or more, then the whole concept of NATO should be reworked," says Ulam, an expert in Soviet foreign policy...
...nears, the Harvard faculty brainstorms new courses that won't be too taxing on students or the teaching fellows assigned to devise the curricula: "Class Struggles in the Saturday Morning Cartoon", nicknamed "Pee Wee's Politburo;" "Your Friend the Immune System," otherwise known as "Cells are Swell" and "The Concept of Adonis in Southern California Beach Volleyball"--nicknamed "California Coolers...
...Israeli Defence Force has been turned into a police force. Many army generals support the concept of Palestinian self-rule, because they are intimately aware of what policing the territories is doing to their troops. When the prime minister visited forces on duty in the West Bank earlier this month, a paratrooper told him, "I have to act brutally toward people free of crime, too. I feel humiliated by this behavior...
...when the concept of First Lady seems like a stuffy anachronism, Barbara Bush may prove to be the right woman in the right place. She has projects -- literacy, cancer research, education -- that predate her husband's bug for politics. As she heads for 64, with no regrets about having poured her energies into raising her family, she seems to have enough heart left over to suffer fools gladly. Years of good works behind her, she is the embodiment of the kinder, gentler world that her husband so gauzily evoked during the campaign...
Later there would be endless musing over "Reagan luck" and "Reagan magic." He was in fact often fortunate. Not only did John Hinckley's bullet stop an inch from Reagan's heart, for instance, but the shooting occurred at a time when the public was still forming its concept of the new President. Reagan's image was enhanced when he responded with both wit and grit. But the incantations about "magic" imply mystical powers beyond the ken of other politicians. There is nothing mysterious about a veteran public performer with a knack for timing, a keen sense for what will...