Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president needed to win acceptance for a new concept of governmental power to supersede laws, political norms and elite values lingering from the economy's earlier stages...
...Florida, then on to New Orleans and the specially selected VFW audience, and came to rest by the Pacific. It was supposed to be a triumphal march from coast to coast, an antidote to Watergate. It failed because of Nixon's nervousness and because it was a hollow concept...
Cole defends Growing Up as a challenge to the "basically dishonest" idea that sex can be taught only as part of a "loving relationship." Sexologists, he says, do not promote this theory to "strengthen the concept of love but to desexualize sex." Because masturbation is the major outlet for both sexes while they are growing up, he asks, "why not talk about...
...limited income." The city charter states that city-owned properties are to be sold by bid. The bill complies with the rules of the charter; the bidding price for the houses and properties begins at $1. Thanks to the sincere efforts of Coleman, a hard-working freshman councilman, the concept of urban homesteading may revolutionize the entire process of urban renewal throughout the nation...
...among unparalleled destruction. One reason for their fears was rational enough: all Japan has recently experienced unusual earthquake activity. Tokyo itself has felt 29 minor earthquake jolts this year - two last week. The other reason is superstitious: even the most modernized Japanese retain a sneaking regard for the traditional concept of tembatsu (heavenly punishment), which teaches that good times must be followed by disaster. No one can deny that Japan has been having fantastically good times...