Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opinions expressed last week make clear the need for women to assert an independent voice in society. However, I found to my mortification that in writing to defend the concept of a concentration in Women's Studies I found it impossible not to sound as closed-minded and contrived as my colleague who sees Harvard becoming "a hotbed of passing fads and vulgar idols...
...help people overcome their skepticism, and most teach psychic awareness courses out of their homes or in local community centers. Brown and McPherson recently began doing "psychic entertainment" where Brown says they hire themselves out to businesses or private parties to "entertain and educate" guests by "explaining' concept of psychic awareness, and then proceeding...
...idea that shows particular promise is the concept of auctioned quotas. Rather than just giving away the import allowances, proponents ask, why not sell off the quotas to the highest bidders? Under the current system the U.S. leaves it to foreign governments to decide how quotas should be apportioned among their companies, which pay no money for the exporting privileges. But under an auction plan, the U.S.-based companies that import the products would bid directly to the Federal Government for a share of the quota, bringing a whole new source of income to the U.S. Treasury...
...concept appears to be gaining momentum. Montana Democrat Max Baucus , plans to introduce, possibly this week, a Senate bill proposing that auctions be tried out in the next three cases in which the U.S. imposes temporary quotas. Many economists, most of whom reject protectionism in general, see quotas as sometimes inevitable and thus regard the auction system as a way for the U.S. to get maximum benefit from them...
...Reagan Administration has opposed the concept of mandatory auctions. One reason: foreign governments may become less willing to agree to quotas with the U.S., since the Government would be reaping the excess profits that foreign companies once took home. But in the minds of many politicians on Capitol Hill, that windfall revenue is precisely what makes the auction idea so alluring...