Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paranoid about his enemies. Some critics suggest, without conclusive evidence, that he lives less ascetically than he claims and that his organizations are wealthier than is indicated by their pitches for funds. Occasionally Nader is also portrayed as a wild-eyed Savonarola intent on forcing his own puritanical concept of the public good on a subservient nation...
...Rochester, Minn., housewife who started her own small firm for consultation on political volunteer programs. Lawyer Francis Love of Wheeling, W. Va., understood the need for massive Government action in the 1930s, but now he believes there is an equally compelling need for massive revision of the New Deal concept and programs that still dominate Washington...
...places, which means that costly facilities are not always in full use. Says Tom Perine, president of Vacation Planning Inc. of Richmond, Ill., the largest timesharing promoter in the U.S.: "Timesharing in the computer industry was the only cost-effective way to utilize superexpensive equipment. We are bringing that concept to resorts...
Given these gloomy alternatives, it is little wonder that Kennecott badly wants to keep Peabody. But that is prevented by a narrow reading by the FTC and the courts of a much debated section of antitrust law; this is the concept that mergers can be stopped not because they reduce competition but because they eliminate "potential" sources of competition. Back in the mid-1960s Kennecott decided that it would make a major attempt to diversify out of copper. Among other things, it bought a small coal field for the purpose, according to Kennecott, of assuring its own fuel supplies...
...European Parliament is not a controversial issue in Germany. Most Germans would accept a reduction of national sovereignty if it would spur European integration. Bonn considers the defense of German economic interests to be far more important than a French-style reaffirmation of national independence--a vague concept which has little meaning or support in the Germany of today...