Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire concept of our Social Security system is fundamentally flawed. What we need is a program to insure the elderly against financial need. If you're 65 or older and have financial need, the government sends you a check. Simple as that. This program should be paid for by increasing income taxes on the middle and upper classes and taxes on corporate profits...
...restore quality. Ironically, what U.S. executives think of as "the Japanese method" was pioneered largely by an American statistician, W. Edwards Deming, 89, who began preaching the quality gospel to receptive Japanese industrialists in 1950. During the 1980s, thousands of U.S. companies borrowed the so-called quality-circle concept, in which teams of employees are encouraged to participate actively in monitoring and improving their part of the production process...
Influenced by liberalization in both theology and society, such clergymen reject or redefine the official concept of celibacy. Many of them interpret it as a ban upon marriage instead of sex, or as an ideal instead of a law to be obeyed. One of Wolf's homosexual priests said of the celibacy rule, "Since it is forced, it has no moral binding power as long as scandal is avoided...
...definitely follows a team concept," Ciavaglia says. "He's very unselfish...
...seeing in Eastern Europe are absolutely extraordinary," George Bush told the New York Times last week. In fact, 1989 will be remembered not as the year that Eastern Europe changed but as the year that Eastern Europe as we have known it for four decades ended. The concept was always an artificial one: a handful of diverse nations suddenly iron- curtained off from their neighbors and force-fed an unwanted ideology. Soviet dominion over the region may someday be regarded as a parenthetical pause (1945-89) that left economic scars but had little permanent impact on the culture and history...