Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Author-Editor Irving Kristol has pointed out, the founders' basic idea was that the pursuit of every man's self-interest was the most reliable motivation on which to build a political system, provided it was "rightly understood" and curbed by political checks and balances. The concept also required a measure of "civic virtue" or "republican morality," which meant a willingness to suspend the pursuit of immediate self-interest to act for the common good. This may always have been more of an ideal than a fact. But today, more than ever, we see growing numbers of individuals...
Overlooked by the Lincoln Memorial, the festival holds forth as a patchwork of Americana to show the nation's ethnic roots from abroad and their perpetuation in American history. The Smithsonian's scholars reject with a shudder the "melting pot" concept of America. They believe in an ethnically diverse, pluralistic nation to which scores of cultures have supplied the pieces that make up the American mosaic...
...Postal Service with a subsidy of up to 20% of its operating expenses is a sensible recognition of this fact. Says New York Democratic Representative James Hanley, who is head of the House Postal Service Subcommittee and the sponsor of the bill: "There's no way the traditional concept and quality of the Postal Service can be maintained at a break-even level." Former Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien agrees. Says O'Brien, who proposed the idea of a separate corporation in 1967 and who now feels that various changes have turned it into a monster...
...second is an increasing belief that institutionalization is harmful to mental patients. The third is the soaring cost of medical care. Now, says Dr. Bertram Brown, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, "we are moving away from the large state or county facility and going to the concept of the community health center." With the help of federal funds, 500 such centers have been built in the last decade and another 100 privately supported ones have been funded. That is only about half the number needed, but it is a start. One major obstacle to this program...
...lecture focused on the need to remember one's roots and to develop a true concept of friendship. Much of what Ali said echoes the Muslim teaching of which he is a follower...