Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mary D. Upton, dean of students, dismissed the concept of ongoing picketing until the faculty acts. "I don't understand what they're saying we can't hire minorities between Wednesday and Friday," she said...
...down and through and through./ We argued and we barg-ued!/ We decided what to do." The jingling verse of Hunches in Bunches (Random House; $5.95) could come only from the prescription pad of Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Theodor Geisel). At 78, Geisel retains his unique ability to wrap a concept in clothing. This time he portrays hunches, tempting the indecisive protagonist away from his homework. The good doctor is an eye-and-ear specialist; his infectious rhymes are meant to be read aloud...
...most important concern is that students not make the mistake of concluding that because the Council had one disorganized meeting that the whole concept of student government has been discredited. I am also concerned that the Council be given a fair chance to organize itself. The fact that thus far the Council has focussed on procedural issues in its meetings does not mean that student government is not serving students' needs. Obviously the new Council must devote energy to the basic tasks of organization. But students must also be aware of what the Council is doing. The Residential Committee...
...Secretary Donald Regan have argued repeatedly in recent weeks that the U.S. is plagued by a high rate of "structural unemployment," which cannot be cured by the Government's traditional pump-priming tactics of boosting spending or expanding the money supply. The term structural unemployment is a fuzzy concept that has been bandied about by economists for years, but has no clear-cut definition. Generally speaking, it refers to people out of work not as a result of a recession, but because their skills do not match the available jobs. There is no way to identify or count such...
While most economists agree that structural unemployment is something to be very concerned about, many believe that the Administration is trying to use the concept as a smokescreen to cover its failed policies. "How do you measure structural unemployment?" asks Sar Levitan, an economics professor at George Washington University. "You pull a figure out of the air. Those who talk about it are playing with numbers to build up a justification for unemployment." Says Barry Bosworth, an economist who was director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability under President Carter: "We have an enormous number of jobless people...