Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparing a department's spending requests with what it spent the previous year, but starting at zero and figuring out how much it really needs. Currently, as time grows short to ready the 1979 budget for presentation to Congress on Jan. 23, Mclntyre has been zealously applying the concept to the Federal Government. The Department of Defense asked for $130.5 billion in new spending authority for fiscal 1979, but will probably get $126 billion-and that is one of the smaller cuts. According to OMB gossip, Mclntyre whacked much harder at spending proposals by the departments of Labor...
...classic work On Aggression, Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz argued that man is the only species that regularly kills its own kind. This concept, which contrasted the order and restraint in the animal world with the chaotic aggressiveness of man. reflected the mood of the time: the shadow-of-the-Bomb pessimism of the '50s and early '60s. But Lorenz was wrong; since 1963, when his book was published, naturalists have identified dozens of species that kill their own, including lions, hippos, bears, wolves, hyenas, herring gulls and more than 15 types of primates other than...
...want to give a government subsidy to start a Spanish ghetto (in public housing)--with no bad connotations to the word? Black pressure groups will push for affirmative action in the smaller, more desirable housing projects, but Hispanics are not interested, Trillo says. In fact, the racial integration concept in public housing may be responsible for hostility between blacks and Hispanics...
Walter Mondale, conceding that Carter has overloaded Congress: "There is a concept in missilery, where you fire too many missiles too close together and they kill each other off -fratricide. I think it can be fratricide, too many issues landing at the same time...
...fight. The least warlike is After the Holocaust, designed around the premise that the U.S. has been sundered by an atomic war into four weak and competing regions. The regions are so impoverished that a war is unlikely to be profitable. The way to win is to cooperate, a concept that is unsettling to most game players...