Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disclaiming any idea of advising trained economists on "technical issues," Ike set forth some "commonsense aspects of the matter that we must squarely face." No economy, he said, can satisfy all "personal and governmental demands and desires" at the same time. "The world may try through financial and monetary devices to obtain more from its economic resources than can be produced, [but] in reality this cannot be done." If an economy is asked to "carry more than it can," the results will be rising prices and - if inflation runs on unchecked - depression. "It may be well occasionally to recall...
...what's happening there right now?" demanded Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker in the Pentagon last week as an officer passed along the latest message from the troops in Little Rock. Another officer had an idea: "Why not turn on the television set?" A set was wheeled up, flicked on, and promptly revealed members of the 101st Airborne Division stiffly at parade rest outside a peaceful Central High School. Brucker grunted with satisfaction. Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor, onetime commander of the 101st, peered hard at the soldiers. "They look good, sharp," he said, then broke out unbelievingly...
Cornell students have always felt that they should be allowed to solve their own social problems as they arise. This idea is very nice if students can recognize the problems, but the Cornell students have been manifestly unable or unwilling, probably the latter, to recognize them...
Whipple said he had no idea where or when U.S. observers will be able to see the object, though it should be visible through binoculars during the early morning and evening. He revealed that he was trying to contact Russian authorities through the Washington bureau of "Operation Moonwatch," but so far without success
...This idea was started last year on a much smaller scale, with only 20 forced commuters in the Class of 1960, less than one-fourth of this year's number...