Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves as financially independent clubs. Through their 200 years, final clubs have represented prestige, wealth, and "place" in society. Even today, they exclude women. But just as the Harvard of 1749 has changed in social climate, so have the final clubs. The change has been of standards, not of concept, however...
...York, Hasan Abdel Rahman, deputy observer of the U.N. for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said the award "is against the concept of peace and justice...
...limits. A team effort such as this defies standard sexist categorizations and qualifications of the word "athletic." It is sad and somehow almost quaint, then, that Steve Herzenberg, in cleverly and astutely trashing the weak women stereotype, can only substitute in the she-man "Big Bertha" stereotype: the concept of a fast mixed eight can be understood only as being made up of four men and four pseudomen. The team of men and women that I know only missed a couple of buoys; Herzenberg's eight would have been disqualified by the Regatta Committee at the starting line. --Cynthia Strong...
...proposed sales and business tax cuts for the 1979 budget. Sarasin is leading a petition drive for a state-constitution ban on an income tax and a limit on spending. He says of the 50,000 people who have signed to date: "I see them as supporting the concept. I hope they support...
...Prime Minister was accompanied by the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, the most eloquent of the three black leaders who sit with him on the executive council that is preparing the way for Smith's concept of black rule in Rhodesia. The two leaders had a two-hour session with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance; as they left the State Department surrounded by Secret Service agents to protect them from placard-waving demonstrators, Smith grimly characterized the meeting as a sparring session in which there was nothing more than "a repetition of old ideas." In a pointed rebuff, Vance...