Word: brainchild
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...proposal is the brainchild of L.A. Councilman Robert Farrell, a South Central resident who believes his area is being shortchanged by the I've-got-mine attitude that prevails in safer parts of the city. "The levels of violent crime in South Central Los Angeles are just no longer acceptable," says Farrell. "My car has been broken into, my house has been burglarized, and my wife has been robbed at gunpoint. No other members of the city council would put up with this...
ClassMates is the brainchild of Robin Alper '87 and Betsy Kramer '87. The two Quincy House residents are banking on their belief that such a venture will fill an existing gap in the social lives of local students...
...profitable business for one of his classes at Penn's Wharton School of Business. So after doing research into the logistics of such an inter-Ivy publication, he began to create a "network through friends and contacts" of students at the different campuses to write and distribute his brainchild, Frankel said...
...education has been a program searching for a consensus since it arrived in the schools at the turn of the century, the brainchild of stern progressive-era reformers, mostly doctors and other upper-crust male professionals. The idea, the only idea, was to enforce sexual restraint. Reformers believed that enlightened mass education could help banish venereal disease, prostitution, masturbation and sex outside marriage. The notion of "scientific" sex education arose as a way of deflecting the curious from actual sexual behavior. Instruction, said a 1912 committee, "should aim to keep sex consciousness and sex emotions at the minimum." Then...
...invitation, the brainchild of Yardling Gil Citro '90, at first requested Bok's presence for a date in mid-October...