Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reluctant to delegate authority and judges every issue on the merits of the case presented to him." And the President does tend to consider issues one by one. A senior Administration official asserts: "Although he's a very fast learner, he doesn't move easily from one concept to another. You can open one subject, and he'll quickly have it mastered. Then he'll master a second one. But he often doesn't see the relationship between one and another, despite a really first-class mind." It is also true that Carter has committed...
Dukakis discussed the blue law bill after a taped interview with WHRB's "Cambridge Questions," which will be broadcast Sunday. During the interview, Dukakis endorsed the concept that government should attempt to guarantee a job to all adults...
...feelings, ain't they what it's all about? After all, by the time the opinion polls diagnosed the concept of alienation, some people were already cocktail-party-familiar with a selfish version of it, trotting out their justification for narcissism and political apathy with the self-righteousness of that fox in Aesop's fable who gets his tail sliced off in a trap and spends ages trying to convince his fellows that, really, it is exceedingly convenient to be rid of such an appendage...
...many Americans, affirmative action for the sake of equality seems a threat to the very concept of equality. If two people are equally qualified and one is favored over the other because of race or gender, is that not undemocratic and unfair? Says Martin S. Goldman, New England education director of the B'nai B'rith: "The evil is discrimination. One does not end discrimination by discriminating...
Carter, in a letter to Chatee last month, reaffirmed his campaign support for raising mandatory retirement ceilings, and endorsed the concept of providing exemptions from the bill "where age has been found to be an important indicator of job performance...