Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of Alfred Sloan's theory of salesmanship; "make money, not cars." The former head of General Motors discovered that he could make money by transforming cars from transportation vehicles into emotional symbols. Solan added diversity to the showroom, psychological lures to the sales pitch, status to the concept of auto travel, and price to the price tag. The public is only now beginning to realize how it has been cheated psychologically. This memory will not fade quickly...
Parents may disagree, but many teen-agers and a growing number of physicians concur with that statement by Leah Newman, 16, a member of a New York City high school group advocating freedom of sex information. Civil liberties groups are also leaning toward the concept that teen-agers should be able to get medical services where sex is concerned, without involving their parents. In a U.S. district court, two pregnant 16-year-old Boston girls recently won a delay in enforcement of a state law that requires them to obtain parental permission for abortions. But despite some progress, the medical...
...Robert S. Blacklow '55 associate dean for academic programs, complained that "the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has been against the whole concept of a national service corps and has been identified as a lobby for all medical schools. The private medical schools want the legislators to know that the AAMC isn't representative of every medical school in the country...
...advertising and editorial policies of this newspaper are completely separate, governed in common only by the concept of free speech. The unwritten rule, like that of many other newspapers, has been to accept any advertisement that is not clearly misleading, deceptive, libelous or offensive. Even broader latitude is given to ads that express a political point of view...
Despite Bok's professed support for the concept of Afro-American Studies programs, not much needs to be said about the way Harvard has treated its own Afro department. Bok can talk all he wants to the NAACP about efforts aimed at "strengthening the faculty of Afro-American Studies," but the fact remains that despite numerous pledges Harvard has only one tenured professor in the field. The University evidently had an opportunity to add a second last spring, but missed its chance when it failed to give him free and complete access to the research facilities of the W.E.B. DuBois...