Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this tune, killing King was not a luxury. He needed the mission, he needed the concept of killing King to hold himself together. It gave him the cohesion he was utterly dependent on. It was not just a twisted ideal that led him on. It was a compulsive obsession, and he was having trouble sustaining it over the period of time he had set to accomplish his disparate plans ... Given the chain of circumstances of his life, killing King had become Ray's destiny...
...from-the-ranks officer, Goodin graduated first in his class of recruits and was named chief in 1971. He won nationwide attention with a neighborhood team-policing concept, which involved taking cops out of their cruisers and assigning them to long-term service on beats so that they could get to know their assigned neighborhoods. He also established an alcohol-action project, which included mandatory rehabilitation classes for drunken drivers. His department was a model for other cities in the early 1970s...
...note with growing concern a propensity of some members of the Harvard community to distort the concept of "rights of the minority" in order to charge discrimination where none exists. The most recent example concerns the reaction to Christmas decorations in House dining halls. Hope Reisman writes to The Crimson that she finds "such decorations offensive and discriminatory." I fail to see the applicability of either term. Ms. Reisman need not feel personally insulted or offended that a sizeable portion of the community wishes to celebrate a particular holiday while she does not. Nor should she feel that...
...wrong with that. Further, Harvard should avoid conflicts such as the one involving Freshman registration and Rosh Hashanah. But to contend that because not all students here are Christian members of that faith should be prohibited from expressing their sentiments in public decorations is a mischievous perversion of the concept of rights of the minority. Steve Boutwell...
Thus labor may form a major source of opposition to Trilateral policies. But Brzezinski maintains that the American economy has become so dependent on foreign resources that "the concept of isolationism is at worst a suicidal policy and at best an irrelevance...