Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Erik H. Erikson Professor of Human Development Emeritus and father of the "identity crisis" concept, has been named the second Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities for 1973 by the National Endowment for the Humanities...
...Dunlop-Pirelli and the Fiat-Citroën difficulties do not mean that transnational alliances are bad. But the troubles do cast serious doubt on the concept of what Dunlop's Geddes calls "a marriage of equals." If the Europeans are to create many vigorous multinational companies, they will have to swallow nationalistic pride, aim for complete mergers and accept unified managements-like those of their American rivals...
...less heeding-the paper's consistently liberal editorials, Robert Pittman expressed his dissatisfaction in a memo to fellow staffers last fall: "When an editorial writer doesn't know the answer to a problem, he frequently describes it as a dilemma. There are also many dilemmas in the concept of the present editorial page." As an alternative, Pittman proposed a new editorial format that would include factual essays on each side of a question to run along with the Times's position on the same subject...
...concept of a democratic Jewish state is a contradiction in terms," Chomsky said...
Eventually the group presented its concept to Nora, general director of Librairie Hachette, a giant firm that owns 50 publications. The company also has links with the reigning Gaullist Party. Ironically, Nora himself was one of Servan-Schreiber's closest associates during the launching of L'Express in 1953, but the friendship iced over after Nora accepted a government post. The bad blood between the two added spice to Hachette's decision to publish Le Point. "Between such good friends gone wrong," says one top Paris journalist, "there can be nothing but cadavers...