Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deep-seated discriminatory manner in which the department and I have been treated," Isaac says, adding he believes that he was denied tenure because of a "behind-the-scenes attempt to not hire people wholly within the department." Isaac says that he does not object to the concept of joint tenure appointments, but he says that such appointments, should only be made after Afro acquires at least two full-time tenured professors with a complete commitment to the department...
...CURRENT General Education program has strayed from its original intentions. The idea of a well-rounded, liberal arts program has been perverted by a proliferation of upper and lower level Gen Ed offerings. Departmental bypasses have further eroded the liberal arts concept...
...seems that the innovation may not be that dead after all. Throughout the recession, a small but determined number of firms kept their workers on four-day schedules, and as the presumably prosperous summer of '77 approaches, some other employers are giving the concept a fresh look. In the Chicago offices of the big Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, 550 employees this week begin a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day schedule that extends their workday to 9½ hours (8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.) but allows staffers to take either Fridays or Mondays off. David Ofher, general manager...
...hard for someone like George [McGovern, who recently attacked the President's economic policies] to get credit for fights. Many of President Carter's proposals are liberal in concept. Look at the record: a $4 billion tax cut for lowest-income people, repairing the Social Security system, $10 billion in public works and public jobs, grants to help the most troubled center cities, upping the money for education...
When asked whether the concept of the end of the universe could be understood intuitively, Field said "the theory is logically absurd," adding that even mathematics cannot yet account satisfactorily for the beginning and end of time...