Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other local news this week, the City's Planning and Development Department proposed the construction of a three-level, 1500-car parking garage in Allston to relieve some of the pressure on Harvard Square parking facilities. "All we need now is for people to agree on the concept, not the specifics," said Robert A. Bowyer, director...
...need now is for people to agree on the concept, not the specifics," Boyer said...
...concept of parking across the Charles River in Allston is attractive to Cambridge because of the lover land costs...
...Heisenberg Principle also suggests that rational science may be limited in its ability to comprehend nature; at best it can only arrive at certain statistical probabilities in determining, say, where an electron is at any given moment. the concept that the universe cannot be known by more definite methods that such "guesswork" was so revolutionary that even Einstein could no accept it. " God does not play dice with the universe," he insisted...
...present trend toward making people's environments-and educations -equal will cause hereditary differences to loom larger. And IQs are indeed largely inheritable, Dobzhansky says, citing 50 independent studies in eight different countries. But even if intelligent people intermarry and have intelligent children, the IQ is a narrow concept and there are many other traits that make people successful or unsuccessful. Therefore Dobzhansky denies that a meritocracy would lead to a permanent caste system, as Herrnstein feared. "The caste system in India was the grandest genetic experiment ever performed on man," writes Dobzhansky. For more than 2,000 years...