Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is a matter of Jane's semantics-and Soviet intention. There is no doubt that the Soviet fleet has an offensive capability and has been considerably stretching the concept of strategic defense. Soviet submarines appeared in the Indian Ocean for the first time last winter, and only last week the helicopter carrier Moskva turned up in the Mediterranean. That, declared U.S. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, is "visible evidence of Russia's announced intention to be come a modern major offensive sea power...
...While the finished composition may seem to Western eyes much like other Chinese paintings, to scholars it is as different from the Sung realists as a Jackson Pollock from an Andrew Wyeth. It is also peculiarly modern. Says Cleveland's Lee: "At the heart of the whole modern concept of painting is the premise that technical skill is something almost anyone can acquire with effort, but great painting is a personal record of the artist for his own private ingroup, and he doesn't care about what the mass of people think...
...first, the 747 was designed for long-haul flights at bargain fares. But the original idea has been slightly altered. Fearful of being able to fill 490 economy seats-and of running their present jet fleets out of business-the airlines have all but abandoned the cheap-fare concept. To fill planes at current fares, many are opting for 350-seat layouts and devoting the rest of the space to such frills as 71-ft. movie screens and a "penthouse lounge" that converts to two twin-bed staterooms...
Mexican Standoff. And yet, what too many of his critics have failed to see is that this paragon late of the Pentagon is far from being narrow or insensitive. He can stress the excellent record of the Defense Department on open housing. He can enlarge his concept of security to include economic as well as military values. He knows that "solid friends and implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long...
...Since a bubble on such a large scale is a relatively new concept," a B&G spokes-man said, "we wanted to be sure the structure conformed with city and state safety standards, was what we needed, and would...