Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...viewers of "Breaking Away" are aware, teamwork is as crucial to good bike racing as cunning. "Both John and I try very hard to develop the team concept," co-coach David K. Smith '58 says, says, "because when you're drafting with teammate, you only use 80 percent of the energy...
Some experts are not so certain. "All it tells you is that a person is where you want him to be," says Minnesota Corrections Commissioner Orville Pung. "He could be running a stolen-goods ring out of his house." The concept also prompts philosophical opposition. Says Joseph Vitek, director of corrections for Douglas County, Neb.: "It smacks of police state." Most / inmates, do not appear to be burdened by such considerations. Jeffrey Stafford, who is employed as a house painter, says he has every reason to make the idea work. "It would never enter my mind to tamper with...
...concept of the album is interesting. You can't do a greatest hits package without a single hit, and someone was really exercising creativity in subtitling the album "classic performances...
...stupidity of the concept itself should be credited to Jack Finney, whose novel Marion's Wall was the basis for the screenplay...
Consider for example, the entire concept of style and fashion which is today so central to the average person's sense of identity. During the second decade of this century the expansion of market relations into new spheres of social life generated major shifts in the cultural outlook for thousands of young Americans. This was the product of a deliberate attempt to equate consumption and the satisfaction of prefabricated desires with freedom and youthful rebellion, thereby facilitating the production of new conceptions of personal identity which were almost completely dependent upon the possession of status commodities. As cultural historian Stuart...