Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlanta companies joined forces in 1974 after Scientific Games developed the idea for instant-win lotteries. The concept was based on promotional contests that Scientific, then barely a year old, had been selling to businesses. Scientific now acts as the sales agent for the games, performing all marketing, design and administrative work, while Dittler is the printer...
...strategic concept that Nitze publicized last week also put the Soviets on notice that whatever the outcome of the new talks, the Administration is committed to protecting its offensive forces with some kind of antiballistic missile (ABM) defenses. That is a reversal of American policy since 1972, when the superpowers agreed to severe limitations on ABMs in the course of SALT...
Integrality is a concept that explains what to some is a paradox in John Paul's vision of the church's mission. One common interpretation categorizes the Pope as liberal on social issues but conservative on doctrine. Says a close Vatican adviser: "Such talk is totally incomprehensible to Pope John Paul. To him, Christian doctrine is one unified whole, a package deal that doesn't break down into social and theological, this-worldly and otherworldly. There is a social message in the Eucharist, just as there is a doctrinal basis for social action. In fact, he sees the Eucharist...
Church officials insist that the matter of ordination has nothing to do with discrimination. Says Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications in Rome: "The ordination of women (is) not a concept emerging from sociological considerations. Jesus clearly did not ordain women to the priesthood, nor did he authorize the church to do so." As for further discussion, another Vatican official says categorically, "The verdict is in. It is simply not worth discussing for the duration of this pontificate...
...computer giant five years ago adopted the concept of independent business units, which operate as separate organizations. Now eleven in number, the IBUs each have their own mini-board of directors and can decide on their own manufacturing and marketing strategy, usually without asking for approval from headquarters. One unit is developing automatic teller machines for banks; another is building industrial robots. IBM's best-known IBU produced the company's Personal Computer. A dozen executives led by Philip D. Estridge, 47, set up headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., in 1980 with a blank check and a mandate...