Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came to my senses and realized that exercise was involved. Exercise that took place very early in the morning. No more thought about crew was required until someone suggested I become a coxswain. Perhaps it was a latent desire to by Ally Sheedy in Oxford Blues that made the concept of being coxswain attractive. Or the fact that I wouldn't perspire. Or that coxswain can be considered an administrative position. More likely it was the knowledge that no physical exercise would be involved...
First, the feminists. Betty Friedan, for one, thought the very concept of the trial sullied by its subservience to "masculine" social theory: "This whole thing has to be taken out of the realm of contract law that is based on the male model of corporate stocks and commodity trading," she told The New York Times."If the woman wants to keep the baby, you would have to assume that the claim of the woman who has carried the baby for nine months should take precedence over the claim of the man who has donated one of his 50 million sperm...
Whether or not life care is always a financially smart investment, many Americans are finding that the predictability of a life-care program gives them invaluable peace of mind. "It's an excellent concept," says Lawrence Krause, a San Francisco-based financial planner. "The fear of loss is much greater than the greed of gain." Dean Bowman, 76, and Wife Fate, 75, would agree. They paid $82,000 in 1984 to live in a two-bedroom home in Mount San Antonio Gardens. Says Dean: "There's no question in my mind that we made the right decision. We took...
Macintosh afficionados might also want to try Cricket Software's Cricket Graph. Similar to Chart in Concept, Cricket Graph also lets you sort and perform many mathematical manipulations. Especially useful is Cricket Graph's ability to fit regression lines to scatter-plot data. Of course, the cute name is also a plus...
...What a concept! Mad Max meets The Cosby Show. What a surprise! It works better than a fastidious mind might imagine. One reason is that Mel Gibson himself has been recruited to play Lethal Weapon's lethal weapon, Los Angeles Police Detective Martin Riggs. Sometimes, when Gibson is not wandering the post-atomic Outback, he has a tendency merely to stand around looking internationally handsome. But Riggs is Max's psychological cousin, a man whose wild-eyed courage is based on having witnessed so much cruelty that he no longer cares whether he lives or dies. Gibson knows just...