Word: brainchild
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...festival, the brainchild of Christoph Wolff, Chairman of the Music Department, will feature styles ranging from Baroque to electronic music. "I felt that it was an ideal opportunity to coordinate all of the normally uncoordinated musical activities on campus," Wolff explained...
...Cross is using a "Harvard-Yale Challenge," the brainchild of Connecticut and Yale volunteers, in hopes of pumping up donation rates at the two schools. At the end of this year's campaign the more generous university will receive a trophy. Going into the the drive, Harvard leads the New Haven institution by a single unit, 1056 to 1055, said Field Director Marie Cloutier Diflo...
...vote. Goldwater has already stated that the controversial missile, which would cost $20 billion to $30 billion, is dead. The bill for Star Wars, now in the earliest stages of research, will not come due for many years, but some Congressmen are threatening to strangle this Reagan-policy brainchild in the crib...
...plant replicas were the brainchild of George Lincoln Goddell, the museum's first director, who in 1886 began seeking perfect botanical replicas for a natural history exhibit. The quest ultimately led him to a pair of craftsmen in Dresden, Germany...
...latest method that purports to select the sex of offspring is the brainchild of Ronald Ericsson, founder of Gametrics Ltd. of Sausalito, Calif. Ericsson, who has a Ph.D. in reproductive physiology, is the coauthor, with University of California Obstetrician Robert Glass, of a 1982 book, Getting Pregnant in the 1980s. Gametrics' aggressively marketed method has stirred popular interest, but many scientists are skeptical. "This could be Landrum Shettles all over again," says Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, a spokesman for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology...