Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the idea that the President should have discretionary power to adjust tax rates in order to deflate or reflate the economy over short periods. "In the first place, people are entitled to be heard when taxes are to be increased. I don't know any place in the White House where the President could have a hearing room big enough to hear those who would want to discuss increases in taxes. But the main thing in my mind is that I just don't feel that taxes can be raised and lowered, season by season, or that...
...home, who still need some, but not 24-hour, nursing care, and who can fend for them selves in a dining room. The planners have not proved very persuasive. Hos pital administrators give lip service to the idea, but little more...
...When the idea of voluntary health insurance for the U.S. germinated in the 1930s, the actuaries insisted that whatever was covered must be quantifiable, so that it could be priced. They hit upon hospitalization as a tangible item, and Blue Cross was born. But definitions of hospital costs are so complex that ever since, while it has expanded into 45 states, Blue Cross has been involved in haggles with state insurance departments over rates...
...capture, he speculates, an atmosphere and oceans may have formed on the moon and lasted long enough to support the evolution of complex molecules that were forerunners of life. Singer is attempting to complete the theory while keeping one eye on the fast-moving Apollo moon program. "The idea is to try to work all this out before the moon samples are brought back and examined for evidence of such events. That's the real fun of it all-to be able to say 'I told you so.' In science, that's the name...
...only his poetry but his whole essence seems to be lost in translation. Russians-from schoolchildren to arcane critics-still devour Pushkin's poems, plays and stories. His work is viewed at home as the headwater of the great streams in Russian literature. Tolstoy admitted that the idea for Anna Karenina flowed from an unfinished Pushkin story. Dostoevsky once said: "If Pushkin had not existed, there would have been no talented writers to follow." Even the modern Soviet state claims him as a comrade, maintaining that many of his best lines were premature party lines...