Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry. The 1979 Alien had turned a good profit for 20th Century-Fox, but not enough to create a compelling desire among the studio's management for a sequel. In any event, various alien life- forms kept coming and going in the executive suite. Some loved the "concept" while others deplored it, citing declining grosses for horror films...
Being lost is a concept only and not one helpful to apply in Boston. One drives and drives and then, suddenly, one is someplace better...
...Gerard Lelievre figured out the answer." Explains Lelievre: "We had been thinking of doing it like double doors, but that was not possible with the story's late closing. I came up with the idea of two single gatefolds bound next to each other, and then I explained the concept by folding yellow-pad sheets." White House Photographer Dirck Halstead was charged with deploying 15 photographers for this week's centennial coverage. He arranged for locations with the Navy, Coast Guard and White House, plus the states of New York and New Jersey. The planning paid off. From...
What makes the World Bank unique is its hard-nosed financing concept. The bank is jointly owned by 150 countries that have contributed $3.2 billion to its capital (including $1.1 billion from the U.S.). But the bulk of the World Bank's $66.8 billion in capital comes from private investors, who buy the institution's bonds in the open market. The World Bank relends these borrowed funds at a maximum rate of .5% over cost...
...concept of land ownership is foreign to both the Hopi and Navajo traditions (despite the tribes' vigorous assertions of territorial rights), a point little appreciated by successive white administrators. Left alone, the stronger Navajo, who now number about 170,000, would have prevailed over the Hopi, who now number about 10,000. Instead, the U.S. Government has struggled to mediate the dispute for more than a century but so far has only prolonged...