Word: conceptions
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John Mulvey, secretary of S.B.S., charges that the British government has "no overall policy or concept of what they should be doing in supporting science." S.B.S. claims an added $155 million is needed next year for government research expenditures just to prevent a continuing decline in research support. Meanwhile, many young scholars keep coming to the U.S., and few see any reason to return home. Says Whaley: "A lot of things would have to change professionally for me to go back...
Does love conquer all? The players, the director and the screenwriter would all like us to believe that it does, and by the film's conclusion, you probably will. Letter to Brezhnev won't change your concept of the cinema, poorly shot and spliced as it is, but it's a good hand-holder and thoroughly enjoyable...
...researchers assembled in Washington to hear -- on the record -- a nonstop list of speakers, including SDI Director Lieut. General James Abrahamson of the Air Force, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, and Paul Nitze, the Administration's special adviser on arms control. Prominent scientific and strategic critics of the concept spoke as well. As Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who was instrumental in planning the gathering, noted, "Our object was to put technology in balance with politics. By lunch everyone was talking of radio-frequency quadrapoles and optical phase conjugation...
What is surprising is how fresh, on the whole, the American freedom seems. Says Princeton Economist Robert E. Kuenne: "We have forged an ever wider concept of freedom--it is a vigorous, positive freedom, and it is not self- satisfied. The dynamism has not faltered." If a pollster traveling the world asked people to tell what word they associate with the word freedom, he might find that a majority would say, "America." "Freedom exists only in the land of dreams," wrote Schiller. Many people still believe that America is exactly that...
Most computers built in the past 40 years were designed to do one thing at a time. Following the basic concept conceived by John von Neumann and his colleagues in 1945, they consist of a single, high-speed central processing unit connected to an array of memory cells. "The two-part architecture keeps the silicon devoted to processing wonderfully busy," says Hillis. "But this is only 2% or 3% of the silicon area. The other 97% (the memory bank) sits idle...