Word: conceptions
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Levenson, who is the author of the recently published book, Creation and the Persistence of Evil: Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence, said next year he hopes to study the concept of chosenness, or God's preference of one person over another in the Bible, and its theological implications...
Dukakis, who visited the Harmony Early Learning Center in Secaucus, N.J., criticized Bush's plan as ill conceived. "Any policy that would require every welfare mother in the country to hire an accountant just doesn't make sense," he said. He supports in concept, but not with specifics about how he would pay for it, a $2.5 billion day-care plan introduced by Democrats in Congress that would apply federal standards to day-care facilities and provide money to states for subsidizing those who send their children to approved facilities. The two approaches illustrate a fundamental difference in the parties...
While moves to upgrade the military have been under way for a decade, Moscow has grown more desperate in recent years. "The acceleration of high technology in weapons threatens the whole Soviet concept of war with obsolescence," says Christopher Donnelly, director of Soviet studies at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Every Soviet service has turned to technology in a faltering attempt to keep up. Though not always state of the art by Western standards, lasers, computers and satellite technology have been brought into the arsenal and forced officers and troops to deal with complex new weapons...
...kind of program we talk about establishing isn't effective if there are three around the country, or 24 around the country for that matter," says Jacqueline Brandt, executive director of the NSEA. "The concept is that every family, every teacher, every person should have access to some degree within their community to services. So we anticipate continual but careful growth...
Catch the "Murder at Rutherford House", a new concept in Broadway performances. A shot is heard and a body is dropped, and when the clues start arriving, so does the meal. Tickets for this so called bargain of the month are $32.50 and $26.30 for students. Performances Fri. and Saturday at 8 p.m., and matinees on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. 246 Tremont St., Boston. Telephone...