Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disappearance has been compounded by the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup. Conspiracy theorists speculate that Alexandrov was planning to renounce the nuclear winter concept and may have been kidnaped by the KGB. According to another theory, the physicist defected to the West. In any case, a delegation of Soviet scientists skipped an annual conference in Sicily this summer, giving neither an explanation nor an advance warning of the boycott...
...entertainment complex stuck improbably in a South African "homeland." Jazz (Miles Davis) is on the record. So is folk (Jackson Browne, Raitt), Latin (Ruben Blades) and reggae (Jimmy Cliff), along with the royalty of rock, both domestic (Daryl Hall) and imported (Pete Townshend, Ringo Starr). Van Zandt's original concept for a single and a dance remix has become a mini-LP of material. Among the tracks: a coruscating jazz version of Sun City by Davis, Keyboardist Herbie Hancock, Bass Player Ron Carter and Drummer Tony Williams; a free-flowing political, rhythmic stream of consciousness by Ray Barretto, Peter Wolf...
...points to the concept of the safety net and the supply-side trickle-down effect, both introduced by Reagan, as tangible results of the new compassion among the right. "You cannot totally eliminate poverty," explains Edwards, "but you can do your best to eliminate...
While many would consider factory work "educational," I am living testimony to the fact that the Tolstoyan concept of the warmth and nobility of the working class, doesn't always apply to their treatment of "college boys." In fact, in my case, it was a bunch of stinkweed...
...guess I'm having trouble dealing with the concept of two unions," says Barbara D. Rahke, an organizer for the UAW. Rahke, who helped organize Boston University clerical and technical employees into a union that was ratified in 1978, however, says the new union will face problems. For example, the newly formed Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers will not have the funding, collective bargaining expertise and prestige of the UAW behind them, says Rahke...