Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employment and admissions--they should be recruited in schools and areas where a given group is prominent, advertisements should be placed in the media that reach them. Special programs of training and of remedial work if necessary should be instituted for them. All this is included in the concept of affirmative action. But more is also now included by government--and that is the problem...
...there is imminent danger of loss of life if he does not disclose such information, or that he has essential information on a violent crime such as murder, kidnaping or skyjacking. Another criterion, which the Congress will no doubt consider, is overriding danger to the national security, though this concept is easily abused and extremely difficult to define...
...Mitsubishi's giant IBM System/370 Model 165 computer has been put to work making matches. For 8,000 yen (about $30) a Mitsubishi worker can get the names of as many as ten employees of the opposite sex best matched to his or her own talents, traits and concept of an ideal mate. Eight courtship counselors, most of them wives of Mitsubishi executives, guide candidates in making final selections. "Mitsubishi boys and girls spend a lot of time and money in search of their future husband or wife," says Hiroyuki Ito, a former Mitsubishi insurance executive who heads...
...media..." This sentence is especially ominous at a time when the Nixon administration is intimidating the media. Yet Mr. Bell's argument would be ominous under any circumstances. He does not take art seriously; he does not take freedom seriously; what he takes seriously is a vaguely defined concept of "social health," which in practice means the repression of what our rulers wish to repress and the encouragement of what they wish to encourage...
...alone in investigating psychic phenomena. Indeed, the persistence and growth of that search in an age of science is testimony to the vitality of the concept. But until psychic researchers produce something more than nebulous evidence, skeptics will continue to scoff...