The idea of state auditors visiting Pawnee, and the subsequent government shutdown there, was conceived from news reports at the time of a number of states considering shutting down schools, parks and other services due to the global recession.
His government there was "conceived as a showcase for his presidential campaign," says Luis Rubio of CIDAC, a Mexico City think-tank.
"There's conceiving a symphony.
"Barbara was there when she was conceived, when she was born, was the first to hold her, and she swaddled better than I did.
Yet aside from the humiliation of being all but erased from the story, given my firsthand knowledge of everything from the founding (I was there when Screw was conceived, during a meeting at The New York Free Press) to the birth of Goldstein's son (I was outside the delivery room), I can attest that the record is set forth faithfully, for the most part, and also entertainingly.
The first Impressionist exhibition was conceived there in 1874.
"I know I was not there when the idea was conceived, but to me, as the head of the unit, I find it hard to manage," he added.
But as you can read in this FastCompany article, my technology was conceived there, and that's where my entire development team was located (and I was able to hire brilliant ex-KGB mathematicians who had skills I couldn't find anywhere else).
At one point during Wollstonecraft and Imlay's relationship, the couple could meet only at a tollbooth between Paris and Neuilly, and it was there that their daughter was conceived; Fanny was therefore, in Godwin's words, a "barrier child".
There were 67 national champions in Michigan when the Champion Tree Project was conceived; there are now 51.
'Couple agreement on disclosure to offspring' was assessed by one study-specific question: 'Do you and your partner agree on what to tell your child about how he/she was conceived?' There were four response alternatives (Yes, totally; Partly; No, not at all; Don't know).
