Word: concepts
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Susan got me thinking about patients. Nurses are my favorites - they know our language and they're used to putting their trust in doctors. And they laugh at my jokes. But engineers, as a class, are possibly the best patients. They're logical and they're accustomed to the concept of consultation - they're interested in how the doctor thinks about their problem. They know how to use experts. If your orthopedist thinks about arthritis, for instance, in terms of friction between roughened joint surfaces, you should try to think about it, generally, in the same way. There is little...
Kristol is still perpetuating the myth that only the GOP understands war. Republicans may understand the concept of war, but they don't know how to win one. Both world wars were successfully prosecuted by Democratic Presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman...
...observing a "Rich supply of homoeroticism" in The Lord of the Rings, Cloud shows that he projects homosexual lust onto any friendship between members of the same sex. It's a pity he apparently has no concept of intimate friendship without a sexual aspect. Like too many people these days, he sees the world through a prism that puts the focus on sexuality...
Friends in the sense that we really are friends. Friends is an elastic concept in politics, as you know. But yes, Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer are close friends. Congresswoman Stephanie Jones from Cleveland is an old friend. So I learn a lot from them about how this business works, and the cost...
...world around them: they were under siege,” Hahn said. Several audience members vocally disagreed with this analogy. Linda M. Heywood, a professor of history in the African American Studies department at Boston University, took exception with this comparison. “In no way is the concept of Maroon relevant to the political status of African-Americans during this period,” she said in an interview after the lecture. “Let’s look at these people as Americans who had in fact taken in the notions that are inherent...