Word: brainchild
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...bill, which is Smith's own brainchild, would disassociate the financing of local schools from the revenue obtained by the state's local property tax. Instead, citizens would pay an amount equal to a percentage of their federal income tax to support the school system. Particular aspects of the bill appeal naturally to both conservatives, who support property tax relief and liberals, who feel the new local income tax would be more equitable...
Gatling is one of the 615 convicts who have graduated in the past three years from "street-law" courses taught in correctional institutions in the Washington, D.C., area. The program is the brainchild of Jason Newman, 37, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center who believes lawyers must do more "to have laymen understand the legal system and know it's there to help them, so they can use it and not abuse...
This most select of Summer School musical organizations is Kirchner's four-year-old brainchild, and its composition and rehearsal schedule are both very much in line with his ideal of musical training--intensive immersion in the theory and practice of music by a group of top-flight musicians, both young hotshots and more experienced pros...
...said he believes liberal education has been weakened because of the "exaggerated permissiveness" of recent years. And because the task forces he has set up to review undergraduate curriculum and life take their cues from him--he denies this although everyone involved sees the entire review as his brainchild--their recommendations will undoubtedly reflect a desire to tighten up the educational system...
...that incident that got Pyle thinking about an insurance collective for the Harvard Community Health Plan. Pyle's brainchild reached fruition last weekend when the Harvard Plan, along with ten Harvard-affiliated hospitals, incorporated their own insurance company on the Cayman Islands in the Carribean...