Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawn most of the heat in a fairly calm debate, surprised many feminists by repudiating the equal-rights stance that the women's movement has taken for years. "The time has come to acknowledge that women are different from men," she says. "There has to be a concept of equality that takes into account that women are the ones who have the babies...
...answer is simple. There is no difference. Shultz says drug-testing is "a different concept" from polygraph testing. Reagan is trying to skirt the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures--it's right there, in the Fourth Amendment--by making the tests "voluntary." Both men, though, should know better...
...damned as "intellectually shaky" the bedrock concept, first defined by the court 60 years ago, that the 14th Amendment applies key provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states, and not just to federal cases...
Colleges, however, can -- and do. Duquesne University in Pittsburgh provided the model for the pay-now, go-much-later concept a year and a half ago, when it initiated a plan, originally for the children of alumni, by which a payment of $4,450 to the school bought four years' tuition 18 years later. Some 600 have signed up, including nonalumni students, who have since been brought into the program. Canisius in Buff'lo and the University of Detroit now provide similar plans. All three also offer rate-for-'ge variations. A 17-year-old bound for Detroit, for example...
...concentrate on the former. A case in point was Le Corbusier's celebrated "New Spirit" pavilion at the Paris exposition of 1925: bare white walls, stairs made out of steel pipes, only a few restaurant-style chairs. "The house is a machine for living in," said Le Corbusier. This concept became very fashionable, but Rybczynski finds it hopelessly contradictory: "Marble kitchen counters and bamboo window shades . . . a Matisse on the wall and a sleeping mat on the floor...