Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stern admonition to "stay in line" is another memorable childhood burden. Lunch lines, fire drill lines and assembly lines are only a few of the long list of our youthful linear formations. In "Lineupheaval" Peck takes this geometric concept one step further. She fills the stage with lines of kids wiggling, stamping, walking and hopping-doing practically everything you can do whie still staying in line. It is grammar school teacher's nightmare. Quite naturally, the temptation becomes too much. The lines collapse into chaotic scatterings of high-spirited, giggling, obstreperous kids...
...challenge of technical work begins from two months to two weeks before the show's opening night, when the director, set designer, lighting designer and costumer design meet to collaborate on an overall concept for the production's design, says Webster...
...supervising whites, thus rendering worthless Harvard's requirement that portfolio companies institute fair employment and management training programs for non-whites. There is, after all, no apparent reason to teach workers skills that it is illegal for them to use. The validity of the equal pay for equal work concept is likewise obscure in the context of South African law; in a country that forbids equal access to education and jobs, there is no equal work...
...time when an athlete can't back down to his opponents. Respect is foremost in athletics, and must be protected at all times in order to be successful. I don't know whether Mr.Cunha has ever played a team sport before, but if he has, he will understand the concept I am explaining...
Despite the widespread acceptance of corruption, though, new laws kept gradually broadening the concept of bribery. In 1881 New York became the first state to make it a misdemeanor to bribe private citizens. During the next half century, 16 other states passed laws against bribing specific kinds of private employees: chauffeurs in Illinois, gardeners in Maryland...