Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arrow received a Nobel Prize in 1972 for his work in General Equilibrium Theory and the Concept of Social Choice...
...should be added that Professor Bossert's alternate proposal of majors and minors would not only be more restrictive than the present system without balancing advantages, but is really an attack on the fundamental premises upon which is based the concept of liberal arts education. Professor Bossert's comments about the knowledge of the Harvard faculty is evidence enough of his desire for more concentration and less broadening of a student's educational experience. The faculty and CHUL should take this into consideration before accepting Bossert's alternative and thereby changing the focus of a Harvard education. --Mark Wells Woodruff...
...conventional arms transfers. "Aywax," meanwhile, is not used for polishing floors, but is the way AWACS is pronounced, signifying airborne warning and control system, a flying command post loaded with computers. Most descriptive of the terms in this arcane tongue is the acronym for the balance of terror concept known as "mutual assured destruction"; it, of course, is called...
...refuse to ratify it, without caring enough to profer a viable alternative. It looked like just such an irony might become reality, when the South House delegation to the convention presented the results of a poll of 69 students that showed that 55 per cent of students favor the concept of student government, but only a paltry 15 per cent would actually vote to ratify the convention's constitution...
Kilbourne examined the concept of "ideal feminine beauty," which she defined as "flawlessness--no blemishes, and, in fact, no pores." Advertisements make women feel "ashamed and guilty" because they cannot "attain that illusion," she said...