Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consistently, she looks to round out her abilities. Haunted by a fear of being labeled a selfish player, she emphasizes her diligent attempts to learn how to master the team concept she seems to regard so highly...
...major steps on China. And they do want to press ahead. Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is eager to play what he has called the "China card" in the ongoing poker game of U.S. -Soviet relations (Moscow has already roared in protest against both the term and the concept). But Brzezinski and other policymakers realize that whenever they play the card, they are going to have trouble with conservative critics on Capitol Hill. Therefore they are moving quietly to build bipartisan support for normalization. For example, the Lord, Day & Lord attorney who has be come an "outside counsel...
...past five years Pat has been expanding, and trying to beat the wild fluctuations in crop prices, in another way: bringing to the farm lands the concept known in industry as vertical integration. Like other growers, he resented having to take his beets for milling to the nearby American Crystal Sugar Co. plant. One reason: the company's officers, then based in Denver, insisted on shutting down the mills on weekends, even during harvest time when beets must be ground up quickly before they rot. Recalls Pat: "We were at the mercy of people a thousand miles away who just...
...most unqualified assessor in the history of Massachusetts." In a deposition under oath during assessment victim Cosmo Capobianco's libel suit against Howe, Howe admitted that he has had "very little" training in the real estate business, and that he did not know the most important and elementary concept an assessor must learn--the three basic methods of appraising the value of real estate...
Caught in the middle is Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and president of Data Resources Inc., an economic think-tank that will issue report later this month applauding the basic concept behind the plan. However, the report warns student hardships and threats to institutional autonomy if the bill be adopted in its present form...