Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four years ago I was really as green as I could be regarding the responsibilities of the vice-presidency. I didn't have the slightest idea of anything other than the ceremonial responsibilities. Now, through these four years have evolved rather definite lines of responsibility...
...taking France into the Common Market seemed likely to go glimmering. Desperately, the Premier sounded out the four co-signers of the colonial motion, asking whether they realized how totally unacceptable it was to the rest of the Common Market nations: Did they want to kill the whole idea...
Sandys is now mulling over the idea of replacing conscription with U.S.-style selective service. He is also preparing to reduce Britain's NATO forces in Germany. With British forces gone from Iraq, going from Ceylon, and practically expelled from their last two bases in Jordan, experts are advising him to bring all remaining colonial garrisons home, at least from Asia. Sandys is prepared to go far, but not so far as British Military Expert Captain Basil Liddell Hart, who last week urged Britain to put all its reliance on nuclear weapons, and chop its defense budget by nearly...
...from Richard A. Sullivan, assistant to the president of the MTA, that the University has hired engineering and architectural firms to find a solution. Sullivan confirmed that a "very practical solution" under consideration would move the tracks beneath the ground and build above them. It is believed that this idea--of building over the subway--has been favorably received by the University...
...manage Esso's sprawling oil refinery at Bayonne, N.J. on New Year's Day, mild-mannered Dr. David F. Edwards, 54, sent the city an ultimatum. Bayonne, which was threatening to raise Esso's taxes another $400,000 a year, must give up any idea of increased taxes, instead cut its operating budget by 10% within two weeks. If it did not, Esso would cancel its $2,000,000 modernization program at the Bayonne plant, and very likely move out altogether-just as Tidewater Oil Co. did two years ago. The Esso plant pays one-fourth...