Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent declaration by Reverend Jesse Jackson that Americans of African ancestry should henceforth be known as African-Americans adds a popular voice to a concept put forth by Black intellectuals for many years. This is a very serious matter because it involves the labeling of some 30 million North Americans (and millions in the Caribbean and Latin America) who can trace part of their ancestry back to Africa. In our search for a positive identity of our own choosing, we have gone from African, to Colored, to Negro, to Black (a protest term which demonstrated that we preferred to identify...
...Some people come in here who haven't eaten a hot dog in 10 years, almost get down on their knees, and thank us for opening up," says Nick Lamberti, 34, who co-owns the store with fellow Boston College alumnus Tom Gianchristiano. They brought the Chicago dog concept from their Quincy restaurant, "Gianberti's," to the Square in July, soothing the hungers of hundreds of hot dog worshippers...
Maven's co-owner Marcus S. Weiss, a Cambridge lawyer, said the partners were "still great believers in the Maven's concept" of providing kosher deli food, but he added that the owners were having trouble finding experienced deli operators...
...piece of undeveloped land, the 76-acre principality bordering the Hudson River from 59 Street to 72 Street. Once a Penn Central railroad yard, it is now mostly weeds and debris. Trump, who bought it for $90 million in 1984, touts it as a $5 billion Trump City, "a concept that is going to be spectacular." It would feature a 150-story building, the world's tallest ("The city of New York should have the world's tallest building"), plus 7,600 luxury apartments in a dozen skyscrapers, a huge shopping mall, a 9,000-car underground-parking garage...
Exploring the farfetched concept of "wormholes," serious physicists find themselves discussing time travel -- and even the creation of new universes...